Laurence Turka, MD
Deputy Director of Tolerance Assays and Data Analysis, Immune Tolerance Network
University of Pennsylvania

Laurence Turka, MD, the C. Mahlon Kline Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Renal Division at the University of Pennsylvania, is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of immune tolerance and transplantation immunology. His contributions include pioneering work in the areas of the use of costimulatory blockade to induce transplantation tolerance, the role of deletion in the induction of peripheral tolerance, and the barrier to tolerance which is created by non-specific T cell deletion.

Dr. Turka has been involved in the Immune Tolerance Network since its inception, and is currently the Deputy Director for Tolerance Assays and Data Analysis, a member of the Network Steering Committee and the Network Executive Committee, and Chair of the Drug Withdrawal Committee. He is a past member of the Surgery, Anesthesia and Trauma Study Section, past-President of the American Society of Transplantation, and current Chair of the NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors.