Education
Columbia University.
Columbia University.
Born 1950) is a geneticist who heads the Robert South. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New New York He received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University in 1976. Doctor Gregersen and his team conduct genome-wide scans to identify polymorphisms that are associated with rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Myasthenia Gravis.
On January 18, 2013, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Doctor Gregersen, together with Doctor Lars Klareskog and Robert J. Winchester "will receive the.
Crafoord Prize "for their discoveries concerning the role of different genetic factors and their interactions with environmental factors in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis"."
Doctor Gregersen leads the North American Rheumatology Consortium to collect, analyze and make available clinical and genetic data on 1,000 sibling pairs with rheumatoid arthritis.