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Jorg Goronzy, MD PhD

Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Immunology
Rochester, MN, United States

Dr. Jörg J. Goronzy is a Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Mayo College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Stanford University, where he was on the faculty with tenure from 2009 to 2021. Before coming to Stanford, he was the Mason I. Lowance, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Rheumatology and Director of the Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Human Immunology at Emory University, Atlanta. From 1990 to 2003, he was on the faculty of the Mayo Medical and Graduate School. He received his medical degree from the University of Aachen, a doctoral degree in medicine from the University of Bonn and a Dr. med. habil. degree from the University of Heidelberg. His training includes a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, a residency in internal medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany and a fellowship in immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University. Dr. Goronzy is an elected member of the American Association of Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
The main interest of the Goronzy laboratory is to understand the effect of age on the deterioration of protective immunity. In addition, he has a longstanding interest in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis and the contribution of inflammation to coronary artery disease. His work investigates the age-related remodeling of the T cell system, driven by failing regenerative capacity and by chronic antigenic stimulation. He has identified genetic and immune signatures that correlate with the size and breadth of the T and B cell response using vaccination with the live varicella zoster and yellow fever vaccines as model systems and has defined molecular pathways that can be targeted to improve memory cell generation.


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