Donata Vercelli, MD

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Associate Director, Asthma / Airway Disease Research Center
Director, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD)
Professor, Genetics - GIDP
Regents Professor
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Research Interests: 

Dr. Vercelli is a physician-scientist. Her laboratory seeks to elucidate the impact of genes, environment and development on asthma and allergy pathogenesis using a range of models, including novel humanized BAC transgenic mice that recapitulate the in vivo effects of human asthma/allergy associated genetic variants, and genome-wide DNA methylation analyses of in-depth phenotyped human populations.

Trainees

Linnea Honeker, PhD
Sydney Van Linden

Selected Publications

2016

Gozdz, J., C. Ober, and D. Vercelli, "Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk.", N Engl J Med, vol. 375, issue 19, pp. 1898-1899, 2016 11 10. PMCID: PMC5495101  PMID: 27959651
Stein, M. M., C. L. Hrusch, J. Gozdz, C. Igartua, V. Pivniouk, S. E. Murray, J. G. Ledford, M. Marques Do Santos, R. L. Anderson, N. Metwali, et al., "Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children.", N Engl J Med, vol. 375, issue 5, pp. 411-421, 2016 Aug 04. PMCID: PMC5137793  PMID: 27518660
Gozdz, J., M. Holbreich, N. Metwali, P. S. Thorne, A. I. Sperling, F. D. Martinez, C. Ober, E. von Mutius, and D. Vercelli, "Amish and Hutterite Environmental Farm Products Have Opposite Effects on Experimental Models of Asthma.", Ann Am Thorac Soc, vol. 13 Suppl 1, pp. S99, 2016 Mar. PMCID: PMC5015741  PMID: 27027969

2014

Vercelli, D., J. Gozdz, and E. von Mutius, "Innate lymphoid cells in asthma: when innate immunity comes in a Th2 flavor.", Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 29-34, 2014 Feb.