We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Maureen A. Su to the foundation Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Su joins Dr. Mark Anderson (University of California, San Francisco), Dr. Richard Auchus (University of Michigan), Dr. Michail Lionakis (National Institutes of Health), and Dr. Dana Orange (Rockefeller University).
Dr. Su is a Professor of Microbiology/Immunology and Medical Genetics and Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her bachelor’s, master’s and medical degrees from Harvard, and completed her pediatrics residency and fellowship in endocrinology at UCSF with Dr. Anderson. Dr. Su seeks to understand what causes autoimmune diseases in order to develop therapeutics to prevent and treat the underlying immune condition. Her work focuses on APS Type 1, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and Type 1 diabetes.