Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Nina Luning Prak, MD, PhD - Dr. Luning Prak is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has made several contributions to the field
of autoimmunity research including demonstrating receptor editing a mechanism of central
tolerance, defining different pathways of antibody heavy and light chain editing and
rearrangement, developing immune repertoire profiling assays to monitor B and cell clones
and track clones in different tissues and during immune or autoimmune responses. At Penn,
she directs a research lab that focuses on B cell autoimmunity and leads the Immunology
team of the NIH funded Human Pancreas Analysis Program Type 1 Diabetes (HPAP-T1D).
She also directs the Human Immunology Core and the Clinical Immunology Lab at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, both of which perform assays to evaluate and
monitor individuals with autoimmune conditions. Dr. Luning Prak serves on the scientific
advisory boards for The Antibody Society, Enpicom and the Immune Epitope Database. She
currently serves on the NIAID Epitope Discovery Working Group and as the chair of the
medical and scientific advisory board of the Autoimmune Association.
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