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Photo of Richard M. Locksley, MD  Richard M. Locksley, MD

Marion and Herbert Sandler Distinguished Professorship in Asthma Research, UCSF
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), UCSF

Member, UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS)
Member, UCSF Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS)
Member, UCSF Immunology Graduate Program

Contact

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(415) 476-5859 (voice)
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Box 0654, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0654

Additional websites:
    Locksley Lab Website

Education

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, B.A., 1970, Biochemistry
Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, M.D., 1976, Medicine
Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA, 1976-80, Resident, Chief Resident
Univ. Wash. School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 1980-83, Infectious Diseases

Professional Experience

  • 1986-2003
    Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
  • 1988-93
    Member and Chair (1991-93), Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section, NIH
  • 1991-94
    Co-Director, Immunology Section, Biology of Parasitism Course, Woods Hole, MA
  • 1994-99
    Chair, Parasitology Pathogenesis Committee, WHO, Geneva
  • 1995-05
    Council, Chair (1998), Midwinter Conference of Immunologists, Asilomar
  • 1995-01
    Faculty, Assoc. of American Immunology Annual Course, Advanced Immunology
  • 1997-present
    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
  • 1998-01
    Member, Chair (2000-01), US-Japan Immunology Board, NIH
  • 2002-05
    Council, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
  • 2003-present
    Director, Strategic Asthma Basic Research Center, UCSF

Honors & Awards

  • American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1991
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholar in Molecular Parasitology, 1992-97
  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of American, 1992
  • Association of American Physicians, 1994
  • Bailey K Ashford Medal, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1994
  • Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Global Infectious Diseases, 2001-05
  • Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists, 2003
  • Inspirational Teacher Award, UCSF class of 2006
  • Sandler Distinguished Professorship, 2003
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2005
  • R37 MERIT Award, NIAID/NIH, 2006

Selected Publications

  • Reiner SL, ZE Wang, F Hatam, P Scott, RM Locksley. 1993. Th1 and Th2 cell antigen receptors in experimental leishmaniasis. Science 259:1457-60.
  • Bix M, Locksley RM. 1998. Independent and epigenetic regulation of the interleukin 4 alleles in CD4+ T cells. Science 281:1352-4.
  • Grogan JL, M Mohrs, B Harmon, DA Lacy, JW Sedat, RM Locksley. 2001. Early transcription and silencing of cytokine genes underlie polarization of T helper cell subsets. Immunity 14:205-15.
  • Mohrs M, CM Blankespoor, ZE Wang, GG Loots, V Afzal, H Hadeiba, K Shinkai, EM Rubin, RM Locksley. Deletion of a coordinate regulator of type 2 cytokine expression in mice. Nature Immunol. 2:842-7, 2001.
  • Mohrs M, K Shinkai, K Mohrs, RM Locksley. Analysis of type 2 immunity in vivo with a biscistronic IL-4 reporter. Immunity 15:303-11, 2001.
  • Shinkai K, M Mohrs, RM Locksley. 2002. Helper T cells regulate type 2 immunity in vivo. Nature 420:825-9.
  • Voehringer D, K Shinkai, RM Locksley. 2004. Type 2 immunity reflects orchestrated recruitment of cells committed to IL-4 production. Immunity 20:267-77.
  • Mohrs K, AE Wakil, N Killeen, RM Locksley, M Mohrs. 2005. A two-step process for cytokine production revealed by IL-4 dual-reporter mice. Immunity 23:419-29. (PMCID: PMC2826320)
  • Scheu S, DB Stetson, RL Reinhardt, JH Leber, M Mohrs, RM Locksley. 2006. Activation of the integrated stress response during T helper cell differentiation. Nature Immunol 7:644-51. (PMCID: PMC2629269)
  • Voehringer D, TA Reese, X Huang, K Shinkai, RM Locksley. 2006. Type 2 immunity is controlled by IL-4/IL- 13 expression in hematopoietic non-eosinophil cells of the innate immune system. J Exp Med 203:1435-46. (PMCID: PMC2118302)
  • Reese TA, H-E Liang, AM Tager, AD Luster, N van Rooijen, D Voehringer, RM Locksley. 2007. Chitin induces accumulation in tissue of innate immune cells associated with allergy. Nature 447:92-6. (PMCID: PMC2527589)
  • Kang S-J, H-E Liang, B Reizis, RM Locksley. 2008. Regulation of hierarchical clustering and activation of innate immune cells by dendritic cells. Immunity 29:819-33. (PMCID: PMC2858430)
  • Barbalat R, L Lau, RM Locksley, GM Barton. 2009. Toll-like receptor 2 on inflammatory monocytes induces type I interferon in response to viral but not bacterial ligands. Nature Immunol 10:1200-7 (PMCID: PMC2821672).
  • Voehringer D, D Wu, H-E Liang, RM Locksley. 2009. Efficient generation of long-distance conditional Alleles using recombineering and a dual selection strategy in replicate plates. BMC Biotechnol 9:69 (PMCID: PMC2724507)
  • Reinhardt RL, H-E Liang, RM Locksley. 2009. Cytokine-secreting follicular T cells shape the antibody repertoire. Nature Immunol 10:385-93. (PMCID: PMC2714053)
  • Locksley RM. 2010. Asthma and allergic inflammation. Cell 140:777-83.
  • Price AE, H-E Liang, BM Sullivan, RL Reinhardt, CJ Eisley DJ Erle, RM Locksley. 2010. Systemically dispersed innate IL-13-expressing cells in type 2 immunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:11489-94. (PMCID: pending)
  • Ricardo-Gonzalez RR, A Red Eagle, JI Odegaard, H Jouihna, CR Morel, JE Heredia, L Mukundan, D Wu, RM Locksley, A Chawla. 2010. IL-4/Stat6 immune axis regulates peripheral nutrient metabolism and insulin sensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:22617-22 (PMCID: PMC3012500).
  • Wu D, AB Molofsky, H-E Liang, RR Ricardo-Gonzalez, HA Jouihan, JK Bando, A Chawla, RM Locksley. 2011. Eosinophils sustain adipose alternatively activated macrophages associated with glucose homeostasis. Science 332:243-7.
  • Sullivan BM, H-E Liang, JK Bando, D Wu, LE Cheng, JK McKerrow, CDC Allen, RM Locksley. 2011. Genetic analysis of basophil function in vivo. Nature Immunol (in press).

Updated: May 4, 2011