Rahman Research

CONTACT

Name: Zia Rahman, MD, PhD
Position: Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Organization: Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Jefferson Alumni Hall, 562E (Office)
Jefferson Alumni Hall, 565 (Lab)
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Highlighted Publications

Fike AJ, Bricker KN, Gonzalez MV, Maharjan A, Bui T, Nuon K, Emrich SM, Weber JL, Luckenbill SA, Choi NM, Sauteraud R, Liu DJ, Olsen NJ, Caricchio R, Trebak M, Chodisetti SB, Rahman ZSM. IRF7 controls spontaneous autoimmune germinal center and plasma cell checkpoints. J Exp Med. 2025 Jul 7;222(7). doi: 10.1084/jem.20231882. Epub 2025 May 27. PubMed PMID: 40439584; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12121627. 

Fike AJ, Chodisetti SB, Wright NE, Bricker KN, Domeier PP, Maienschein-Cline M, Rosenfeld AM, Luckenbill SA, Weber JL, Choi NM, Luning Prak ET, Mandal M, Clark MR, Rahman ZS. STAT3 signaling in B cells controls germinal center zone organization and recycling. Cell Rep. 2023 May 30;42(5):112512. PMID: 37200190.

Domeier PD, Chodisetti SB, Soni C*, Schell SL, Elias MJ, Wong EB, Cooper T, Kitamura D, and Rahman ZS. Interferon-γ receptor and STAT1 signaling in B cells are central to spontaneous germinal center formation and autoimmunity. J. Exp. Med, e-published ahead of print, April 11, 2016, doi:10.1084/jem.20151722. PMCID: PMC4854731 (* Equal second authorship).

Domeier PP, Chodisetti SB, Schell SL, Kawasawa YI, Fasnacht MJ, Soni C, Rahman ZSM. B-Cell-Intrinsic Type 1 Interferon Signaling Is Crucial for Loss of Tolerance and the Development of Autoreactive B Cells. Cell Rep. 2018 Jul 10; 24(2):406-418. PMCID: PMC6089613.

Schell SL, Bricker KN, Fike AJ, Chodisetti SB, Domeier PP, Choi NM, Fasnacht MJ, Sara A. Luckenbill SA, Ziegler SF, and Rahman ZS. Context-dependent miR-21 regulation of TLR7-mediated autoimmune and foreign antigen driven antibody-forming cell and germinal center responses. J Immunol. 2021 May 26:ji2001039. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2001039. PMID: 34039637.

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