Jeffrey A. Ledbetter, Ph.D.

Herndon and Esther Maury Endowed Professor in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Research Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology

Biography

Dr. Ledbetter, a rheumagologist, received a Ph.D.in cancer research from the University of Wisconsin and did fellowship training in immunology at Stanford.

Dr. Ledbetter was amongst the first to assess the effects of T cell depletion with monoclonal antibodies in immunologic diseases in animal models. He discovered CTLA4-Ig while working at Bristol-Meyers Squibb in 1991, and the drug (Orencia) was approved by the FDA for therapy of rheumatoid arthritis in 2008. Dr. Ledbetter also was an inventor of chimeric anti-CD20 mAbs for therapy of B cell lymphoma and for second-line therapy of rheumatoid arthritis. He is working on new therapies for autoimmune diseases.

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• Jeffrey A. Ledbetter, Ph.D.
• The Division of Rheumatology
• The Department of Microbiology

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