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Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-researcher devoted to the roles of the immune system and mucosal microbiota in resistance and susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. He is a professor and chair of Pathology and Lab Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Braun was raised in Los Angeles, where he focused on violin performance. He was an undergraduate at Stanford University (BS, chemistry and biology), and did his MD and PhD studies at Harvard Medical School with Emil Unanue. After residency in Pathology at Brigham and Women�s Hospital, and a postdoctoral fellowship with David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute, he joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1985. His research centers on the mechanisms of microbial-immune commensalism in the intestine, and the related search for new strategies of diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. His group is also devoted to new strategies in functional immune assessment, including gene targeting and positron-emission tomography for real-time imaging of immune-mediated inflammation. He has published more than 130 primary research studies, 13 issued patents, and co-founded three biopharma companies. His recent national service includes Chair of the National Scientific Advisory Committee of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation, and President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies. He still play violin when possible.

Awards and Honors:

Whitehead Institute, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Detailed Biography:

Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and co-Director of Tumor Immunology at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Braun was raised in Los Angeles, where he studied violin in the community and modern western history in the public schools. An undergraduate at Stanford University, he received his bachelor of science in chemistry and biology in 1975. He pursued medical studies and doctoral research at Harvard Medical School and in the laboratory of Emil Unanue; he received his M.D.-PhD. in 1981. After residency in Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a postdoctoral fellowship with David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute, he joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1985. He recent organizational leadership service was as the Chairman of the National Scientific Advisory Board of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, President of the Clinical Immunology Society, and President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS); and, presently serves on the editorial boards of Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Clinical Immunology. At UCLA, he directs the clinical programs in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of UCLA Healthcare, and was the immediate-past Director of the UCLA Clinical Translational Science Institute.