Join the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences for this special seminar titled:

Protective specific antibody repertoires induced after peanut immunotherapy

Speaker: Dr Sarita Patil

The Patil Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) studies humoral immunity in the development of tolerance in allergic diseases.  The lab is focused on understanding and harnessing protective antibodies induced by immunotherapy for food allergies using new techniques to study antigen-specific B cells, including the use of fluorescent multimers. By combining this approach with single cell B cell receptor sequencing and deep sequencing of the antibody repertoire, the lab seeks to better understand the development of clinical tolerance in immunotherapy.

Sarita Patil, MD received her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, her medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and then completed her Internal Medicine Residency at University of Pennsylvania and Allergy and Immunology fellowship at MGH.  She then completed her post-doctoral laboratory training with Dr Wayne Shreffler and joined as junior faculty in 2013, where she developed methods for the identification of allergen-specific B cells. She then established her lab in 2018 in the Center of Immunological and Inflammatory Diseases and the Food Allergy Center at MGH.

She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy and Immunology.  She is also a member of the Food Allergy Science Initiative, a collaborative effort between the Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard.