Dr. Skopelja-Gardner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, the division of Rheumatology. Her expertise is innate immunity in both humans and mice, with the focus on mechanisms of disease pathogenesis in SLE. She has extensively studied immune responses to ultraviolet light in vivo, in both skin and kidney tissues, with the goal to understand photosensitivity in SLE.
Dr Skopelja-Gardener became a full investigator with the CQB in 2022 after the success of her pilot project “Mechanisms of kidney inflammation and injury in lupus photosensitivity”.