Caroline Jefferies

Associate Professor, Cedars-Sinai Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, USA. Dr. Jefferies has an extensive history of research on innate immune response pathways and myeloid cells in SLE. Her work has led to the identification of TRIM21 has a primary regulator of IFN I and IL-23 production, and has translated that work in the lupus setting. Her work is funded by the Alliance for Lupus Research.