Lisa Barcellos

Lisa F. Barcellos, PhD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California.

Research Interests

 * Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases
 * Identification of genetic and environmental risk factors for multiple sclerosis
 * Genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and autoimmune disease
 * Maternal-child histocompatibility and risk of autoimmune disease
 * Epigenetic contributions to autoimmune disease risk
 * Application of causal inference methods to autoimmune disease studies

Open Letter to The Lancet
Two open letters to the editor of The Lancet urged the editor to commission a fully independent review of the PACE trial, which the journal had published in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Barcellos, along with 41 colleagues in the ME/CFS field, signed the second letter.
 * 10 February 2016, An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog