Assistant Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Physician in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, where her laboratory studies the cutaneous neuro-immune interactions promoting allergic immune disease and underlying allergen induced itch responses. She performed her PhD with Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov at Yale University followed by her clinical training at MGH and postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Luster. She has provided several seminal contributions to the field, establishing the cysteine protease activity of allergens as Type-2 adjuvants, illustrating a role for basophils in the skewing of Th2 cells, and identifying a requirement for CCR8 in the entry of Th2-skewing dendritic cells into the lymph node. Most recently her laboratory established sensory neurons as crucial in linking allergen detection with dendritic cell activation and the initiation of the allergic immune response through interactions between Substance P and MRGPRA1. In addition to these roles, Dr. Sokol is the Associate Program Director for the Physician-Scientist Pathway in the Internal Medicine Residency at MGH.
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Friday, June 24, 2022
2:40 PM – 3:05 PM PT
