christian stehlik

My interest is in understanding the mechanisms of inflammatory host responses, as well as derailed host response reactions linked to inflammatory disease. I received my MS and PhD at the University of Vienna working on inflammatory activation of endothelial cells and then did postdoctoral work at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, CA on PYRIN domain and CARD-containing proteins in inflammation. My first faculty position was at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology and the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University, where I focused on inflammasomes. In 2007 I relocated to the Division of Rheumatology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Here I am developing a laboratory studying various aspects of inflammasome formation and regulation in macrophages and inflammatory activation of endothelial cells relevant not only for rheumatic diseases, but for a wide range of inflammatory and immune disorders.

Christian Stehlik