PJ Utz, MD
Associate Director of Education
Associate Director of Education
While earning his M.D. degree in 1991 from Stanford, Dr. Utz co-discovered the transcription factor Nuclear Factor of Activated T
Cells (NFAT) with J.P. Shaw in Dr. Gerald Crabtree's laboratory. He
completed his internal medicine residency, rheumatology fellowship, and
post-doctoral training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston prior
to joining the Harvard Medical School Faculty in 1996. He joined the
Stanford Faculty in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 2005 and Professor in 2012. Professor Utz is an expert in the study of human and murine autoantibodies and
autoantigens, apoptosis signaling pathways, animal models of
autoimmunity, proteomics and multiplexed assay development for biomarker
discovery.
Members of his laboratory are developing several
cutting-edge proteomics technologies for immunological applications,
including multiplex planar-based autoantigen microarrays for studying
lupus, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases such as diabetes,
sclerosing cholanitis, and inflammatory bowel disease; reverse phase
protein lysate microarrays for studying blood cells; flow-based assays
for analyzing samples from patients; and microfluidic capillary
electrophoresis assays. Professor Utz is Founder and Faculty Director of the SIMR Summer High School Research Program, retired Chair of
Education for the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, Co-Director of Stanford's Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and provides
formal lectures to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students in the
Schools of Medicine and Engineering. He also teaches medical students,
residents and fellows in the clinics and on the in-patient wards, and
has won teaching awards in immunology and in medicine. Professor Utz is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of several biotechnology
and pharmaceutical companies, and has cofounded 2 Bay Area companies.
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