CAI Welcomes Yale MD/PhD Martin Kriegel as Scientific Adviser
SAN DIEGO, Jan 13, 2017 --Officials at Cell Applications, Inc., are pleased to announce that Dr. Martin Kriegel has joined the company's group of Scientific Advisers. An Assistant Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Rheumatology) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Kriegel and his lab focus on host-microbiota interactions in immune-mediated diseases. More specifically, they investigate how gut and skin commensals influence immune cell function, and study the impact of diet and genetics on the microbiomes of autoimmune-prone hosts. To address these questions, his laboratory utilizes in vitro cell-based models, as well as in vivo gnotobiotic approaches."We are excited to welcome Martin, and the deep experience and insights he brings," says Daniel Schroen, PhD, a Vice President at Cell Applications and organizer of their Scientific Adviser group. Adds Daniel, "We cannot do it working alone in a vacuum. Dr. Kriegel joins a group of talented, leading-edge biomedical researchers at the forefront of science. Together, our Scientific Advisers contribute practical know-how and foresight to identify trends that can benefit from innovative products, services and advancements in cell-based research."
Martin received his MD/PhD equivalent from the University of Erlangen, Germany, and performed postdoctoral training in immunology at Yale and Harvard. He also completed a medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medial Center and a rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2012, Dr. Kriegel returned to Yale as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunobiology. He also serves as a board-certified rheumatologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was an Emmy-Noether Scholar of the German Research Foundation, an Arthritis National Research Foundation Scholar, an awardee of the Lupus Research Institute, the Arthritis Foundation and the Rheumatology Research Foundation. He serves as an Advisory Editor for Arthritis & Rheumatology and as a Guest Editor for the journal Clinical Immunology.