Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where she is Chief of Allergy and Immunology and the inaugural Director of the Center for Human Immunobiology.  Dr. Eisenbarth earned her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College and then both her doctorate in immunology and medical degree at Yale University. She completed postdoctoral training in immunology and residency in Clinical Pathology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  After running a research laboratory for a decade at Yale, she moved to Northwestern where she has continued working on understanding how T cell-mediated antibody responses are initiated. The development of protective antibodies, such as those to vaccines, as well as pathogenic antibodies, such as those to transfused red blood cells or allergens, relies on appropriately timed interactions between specialized subsets of dendritic cells, T cells and B cells in specific sub-anatomic niches. Utilizing human samples to guide studies and mouse models to test new mechanistic paradigms, her lab has identified novel and unexpected immune cell subsets and functions. The ultimate goal of this work is to identify ways to induce protective immune responses and subvert pathogenic ones.