Clinical Instructor, postdoctoral research fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Josiah Gerdts, MD PhD is a clinical instructor and postdoctoral researcher in Neurology at UCSF with a primary focus on autoimmune neurologic disorders. Followign MD/PhD training at WashU where Dr Gerdts discovered core functional aspects of the molecule SARM1 that controls neuronal damage sensing and programmed axon destruction, he pursued residency training in Neurology at UCSF and clinical fellowship in MS/Neuroimmunology at UCSF. As a postdoctoral research fellow in Wendell Lim's lab at UCSF, Dr Gerdts applies synthetic biology to measure and manipulate immune cell adhesion for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in autoimmunity. He has developed a new platform for multiplexed T cell antigen discovery using a biosensor of the mechanical pulling forces at the immunologic synapse that follow T cell antigen recognition.
