Andrew D. Luster

Andrew D. Luster, MD, PhD, is the Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is Director of its Research Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, and a member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center's Cancer Immunology program.[1]

His laboratory is interested in defining the roles of chemokines and lipid chemoattractant molecules in autoimmune, allergic, and infectious diseases.

Biography

Luster received a B.S, from Duke University in 1981, a PhD from Rockefeller University in 1987, and a MD from Cornell University Medical College in 1988, He had a clinical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. In 1994 he joined the regular staff as MGH, and in 2000 became the initial chief of their Division of Rheumatology.[2]

He is a member of the Autoimmune Disease Scientific Advisory Board, of Idera Pharmaceuticals, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Bionaut Pharmaceuticals,[3]

Publications

According to Google Scholar, his most cited paper, the review "Chemokines--chemotactic cytokines that mediate inflammation" [4] has been cited 3354 times as of December 2013.[5] His most cited research paper, "MCP-1 and IL-8 trigger firm adhesion of monocytes to vascular endothelium under flow conditions" [6] has been cited 992 times [5] His H factor is 94: 99 papers of his have been cited 94 times or more,[5]

References

  1. ↑ Profile at Dana-Farber
  2. ↑ Nature.com Accessed 14 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Business Week Profile Idera Pharmaceuticals profile
  4. ↑ Luster, A.D. (1998). "Chemokines--chemotactic cytokines that mediate inflammation". The New England Journal of Medicine 338 (7): 436–445. doi:10.1056/NEJM199802123380706. PMID 9459648.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Google Scholar record
  6. ↑ Gerszten, Robert E.; Garcia-Zepeda, Eduardo A.; Lim, Yaw-Chyn; Yoshida, Masayuki; Ding, Han A.; Michael, A. Gimbrone Jr; Luster, Andrew D.; Luscinskas, Francis W.; Rosenzweig, Anthony (1999). "MCP-1 and IL-8 trigger firm adhesion of monocytes to vascular endothelium under flow conditions". Nature 398: 718–723. doi:10.1038/19546.

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