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Edgar Engleman

Contact Information

  • Clinical Offices
    Stanford Blood Center 3373 Hillview Ave MC 5556 Palo Alto, CA 94304
    Telephone Work (650) 723-7960 Fax (650) 725-0592

Clinical Focus

  • Pathology
  • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Professional Education

  • Stanford Hospital & Clinics (1978) CA USA
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (1974)
  • UCSF Medical Center (1973) CA
  • Moffitt Hospital-Ucsf (1972)
  • Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (1971) NJ

Industry Relationships

Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industry partners. It is our policy to disclose payments of $5,000 or more, equity valued at $5,000 or more in a publicly traded company, or any equity in a privately held company, to physicians and scientists employed by Stanford University from companies or other commercial entities with which they interact as part of their professional activities. 

  • Consulting: Globe Immune Inc., Innate Immune Inc., Taiji
  • Equity: Capnia Inc., Globe Immune Inc., Innate Immune Inc., Pepgen Corporation, Prestwick Pharmaceuticals
  • Service on Board of Directors: Capnia Inc., Prestwick Pharmaceuticals

Research Interests

The goal of this laboratory is to better understand dendritic cell biology with the objective of using this information to discover and develop more effective immunotherapeutic approaches to disease. We pursue this goal by performing experiments in both mice and humans. In our initial clinical studies antigen pulsed dendritic cells were administered to patients with cancer or life-threatening viral infections in order to induce specific immunity. The results of these trials have been extremely encouraging. More recently we have focused our studies on the development and life cycle of dendritic cells, including Langerhans cells, and the results have not only shed new light on dendritic cell biology but also have led to our ability to target dendritic cells in vivo without having to manipulate these cells in vitro. We believe that this new approach will eventually make it possible to downregulate as well as upregulate the immune system in an antigen specific manner.

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