Joseph Edgar Craft MD

Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Professor of Immunobiology; Section Chief, Rheumatology; Program Director, Investigative Medicine; Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine

Departments & Organizations

Clinical Investigation, Yale Center for (YCCI): Leadership | IMP

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology: Computational Immunology | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Yale Medical Group

Cancer Immunology

Immunobiology

Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale

Internal Medicine: Rheumatology | Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

Center for X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, Yale

Immunology and Immunotherapy

Research Interests

Arthritis; Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Diseases and Disorders; Lupus; T Cell Differentiation; T Cells; Tolerance more...

Education

• M.D., University of North Carolina, 1977

Selected Publications

• Craft J. Follicular helper T cells in immunity and in systemic autoimmunity. Nature Rev Rheum 8:337-47, 2012. PMCID: PMC3604997
• Marshall HD, Chandele A, Jung YW, Meng H, Poholek AC, Parish IA, Rutishauser R, Cui W, Kleinstein SH, Craft J, Kaech SM. Differential expression of Ly6C and T-bet distinguish effector and memory Th1 CD4(+) cell properties during viral infection. Immunity 35:633-646, 2011. PMCID: PMC3444169
• Weinstein JS, Hernandez SG, Craft J. T cells that promote B cell maturation in systemic autoimmunity. Immunol Rev 247:160-71, 2012. PMCID: PMC2110203

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