Stanford Science and Research Team

David Lewis, MD 
Immmunology Research

• Chief & Professor
• Stanford Children's Health
  
• Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology

Naresha Saligrama, PhD

• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Washington University St.Louis
• The Saligrama lab is dedicated to understanding the adaptive immune responses in health and neurological disorders. He began T cell work in PANS during his time as a postdoc in Dr. David Lewis's lab, and continues this research in his lab at Washington University, St Louis. 

Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, FAPA, FANA

• Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry
• Yale
• Dr. Pittenger researches the basal ganglia (regulator of motor and behavioral function) and the consequences of its dysfunction in various diseases like obsessive-compulsive disorder, tics, and Tourette syndrome. He and his colleagues have discovered autoantibodies against neurons within the basal ganglia which alter the behavior of the brains neural network and is likely involved in driving PANS symptoms. His work has included specimens from our patient cohort.

Mike Snyder, PhD

Genomics Research

• Professor
• Stanford University School of Medicine
• Genetics

David Stevenson, MD

• Professor
• Stanford University School of Medicine
• Pediatrics

Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH

• Associate Professor, Neurology
• University of California, San Francisco
• The Hollenbach Lab specializes in analysis of the extremely polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) immunogenetic systems. In addition to their critical role in transplantation, over 100 infectious, autoimmune and pharmacological disease phenotypes and cancers are associated with genetic variation of HLA and KIR, which also have functional interaction with one another. She is running analyses on a cohort of our patient specimens.

Kristen Yeom, MD

Neuroradiology Research

• Associate Professor
• Stanford Children's Health
• Pediatric Radiology

Juliette Madan, MD, MS

• Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Quantitative Biomedical Data Science
• Dartmouth
• Dr. Madan joined the Dartmouth Children’s Center as its Clinical Research Director, expanding the microbiome research program to investigate the relationship between early microbiome development and health outcomes, including neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological outcomes (the gut-brain axis). Recent expansion of this work has included expansion of translational research as part of her Directorship of the Psycho-Immunology and Neurology Group at Dartmouth within Child Psychiatry.

Omar Cornejo, PhD

• Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University.
• Washington State University
• Dr. Cornejo is a population geneticist specializing in infectious diseases and human genetics

Erin Masterson, PhD, MPH

• Epidemiologist
• University of Washington, Seattle
• Dr. Masterson's research is broadly focused on the developmental origins and social determinants of health. Specifically, she is developing methods that will enable teeth (through defective formation of the dental enamel) to be used as biomarkers of adverse early life exposures and, potentially, as a clinical screening tool for subsequent health risk. Dr. Masterson led the efforts for the creation of the PANS Registry, a public registry collecting medical information on PANS patients and their families.

Sarkis Mazmanian, PhD

Microbiome-Based Therapeutics for Autism

• Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology, Caltech Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
• Cofounder and a board member of Axial Therapeutics.