Cathryn Nagler graduated with honors from Barnard College, Columbia University. She obtained her PhD from the Sackler Institute of Biomedical Science at NYU School of Medicine and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was associate professor of pediatrics (immunology) at Harvard Medical School prior to joining the University of Chicago in 2009.

Prof. Nagler has participated in numerous review panels for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, Food Allergy Research and Education, NIDDK and NIAID, including the Food Allergy Expert Panel. She has served the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) as section editor for the Journal of Immunology, instructor for the Introduction to Immunology and Advanced Immunology courses and as member of the Program, Clinical Immunology, Publications and Awards Committees. She was an inaugural senior editor for the AAI’s new journal ImmunoHorizons.