Shelef Research

Dr. Miriam Shelef is an immunologist and a rheumatologist with a research program focused on better understanding the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis to inform the development of novel biomarkers and treatments.

Dr. Miriam Shelef’s Faculty Biography

Pathophysiology of Autoimmune Disease

Dr. Shelef's research aims to solve the mysteries of how and why systemic autoimmunity develops and persists in order to guide the discovery of better clinical tests and improved treatments. Her lab has two major research directions.

1. Define the role of citrullination and the citrullinating peptidylarginine deiminase enzymes in immunity, inflammation, and rheumatoid arthritis
2. Use traditional methodology and cutting-edge high density array technology with innovative statistical methods in collaboration with Dr. Michael Newton to discover new autoantibody targets as well as novel features of antibody and autoantibody reactivity in rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. 

Alumni

Ryan Adyniec

Past Position: Undergraduate student

Next Position: Impact Networking

Mandar Bawadekar, PhD

Past Position: Postdoctoral fellow

Next Position: Senior scientist at Invenra

Amy Bier

Past Position: Study coordinator and research assistant

Next Position: Medical student, Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University Chicago

Michael Denny, PhD

Scientist

Tobias Donlon

Past Position: Study coordinator and research assistant

Next Position: Medical student, University of Minnesota Medical School

Lauren Fahmy

Past Position: Undergraduate student

Next Position: Medical student at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Christopher Glover

Past Position: Study coordinator and research assistant

Next Position: Medical student, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Srishti Gupta

Past Position: Undergraduate student

Next Position: Associate clinical research coordinator at Rush University

Caitlyn Holmes

Past Position: Graduate student

Next Position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan

Aisha Mergaert

Past Position: Graduate student

Next Position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Wisconsin

Chloe Peyton

Past Position: Undergraduate student

Next Position: Medical student, University of Minnesota Medical School

Nicole Rademacher

Past Position: Study coordinator and research assistant

Next Position: Medical student at Medical College of Wisconsin

Ryan Rebernick

Past Position: Undergraduate student

Next Position: MD/PhD student at the University of Michigan

Rebecca (Daeun) Shim

Past Position: Study coordinator and research assistant

Next Position: Master's student at Rush University

Zihao Zheng

Past Position: Graduate student

Next Position: Data scientist at Google

Publications

View Dr. Miriam Shelef’s publications on NCBI My Bibliography