Faculty
Lee Nelson, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
OFFICE ADDRESS
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave N. D2-112
Box 358080
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
M.D., University of California, Davis, CA 1977
Internship in Family Medicine, Spokane, WA, 1977-78
Residency in Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 1978-81
Fellowship in Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1981-84
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Nelson studies how tissue antigens such as HLA influence susceptibility to autoimmune diseases. In addition, she is investigating how transfer of cells between mothers and the fetus influence susceptibility to scleroderma and other diseases. Read more about her research...
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Rueda B, Broen J, Simeon C, Hesselstrand R, Diaz B, Suárez H, Ortego-Centeno N, Riemekasten G, Fonollosa V, Vonk MC, van den Hoogen FH, Sanchez-Román J, Aguirre-Zamorano MA, García-Portales R, Pros A, Camps MT, Gonzalez-Gay MA, Coenen MJ, Airo P, Beretta L, Scorza R, van Laar J, Gonzalez-Escribano MF, Nelson JL, Radstake TR, Martin J. The STAT4 gene influences the genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis phenotype. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Jun 1;18(11):2071-7.
Nelson, JL. Naturally acquired microchimerism: for better or for worse. Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Jan;60(1):5-7.
Guthrie KA, Tishkevich NR, Nelson JL. Non-inherited maternal human leukocyte antigen alleles in susceptibility to familial rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009 Jan;68(1):107-9.
Adams Waldorf KM, Nelson JL. Autoimmune disease during pregnancy and the microchimerism legacy of pregnancy. Immunol Invest. 2008;37(5):631-44.
Stevens AM, Hermes HM, Kiefer MM, Rutledge JC, Nelson JL. Chimeric Maternal Cells with Tissue-Specific Antigen Expression and Morphology are Common in Infant Tissues. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2008 Oct 21:1.
Gadi VK, Malone KE, Guthrie KA, Porter PL, Nelson JL. Case-control study of fetal microchimerism and breast cancer. PLoS One. 2008 Mar 5;3(3):e1706.
Nelson JL. Your cells are my cells. Sci Am. 2008 Feb;298(2):64-71.