Peter Stastny, M.D.

• Anthropological studies of HLA antigens
• Autoimmunity and histocompatibility antigens
• Immunology of allograft rejection
• Major and Minor Histocompatibility Antigens
• Molecular methods for histocompatibility testing

 Featured Publications

Antibodies against MICA antigens and kidney-transplant rejection.

Zou Y, Stastny P, Süsal C, Döhler B, Opelz G N. Engl. J. Med. 2007 Sep 357 13 1293-300

HLA-D region-associated determinants serve as targets for human cell-mediated lysis.

Feighery C, Stastny P Journal of Experimental Medicine 1979 149 485

Association of the B-cell alloantigen DRw4 with rheumatoid arthritis.

Stastny P New England Journal of Medicine 1977 298 449

Production of Autoantibodies against Citrullinated Antigens/Peptides by Human B Cells

Maria F. Bellatin, Mei Han, Margarita Fallena, Lin Fan, Donglan Xia, Nancy Olsen, Valerie Branch, David Karp, and Peter Stastny J Immunol 2012 188 000-000

Natural killer cell crossmatch functional analysis of inhibitory killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and their HLA ligands.

Han M, Fallena M, Guo Y, Stastny P Human Immunology 2007 68 507

MICA antigens stimulate T cell proliferation and cell-mediated cytotoxicity.

Zhang Y, Stastny P Human Immunology 2006 67 215

Detection of anti-MICA antibodies in patients awaiting kidney transplantation, during the post-transplant course and in eluates from rejected kidney allografts by Luminex flow cytometry.

Zou Y, Heinemann FM, Grosse-Wilde H, Sireci G, Wang Z, Lavingia B, Stastny P Human Immunology 2006 67 230

Introduction: MICA/MICB in innate immunity, adaptive immunity, autoimmunity, cancer and in the immune response to transplants.

Stastny P Human Immunology 2006 67 141

Effect of human cytomegalovirus on expression of MHC class I-related chains A.

Zou Y, Bresnahan W, Taylor RT, Stastny P Journal of Immunology 2005 174 3098

• Master of the American College of Rheumatology
  Recognition for research performed (1997)
• Pemberton Memorial Lecture
  Philadelphia (1977)
• VA Clinical Investigator
  Research support (1971)
• Arthritis Foundation Fellow
  Research Fellowship (1965)

• American Association of Immunologists
• American College of Rheumatology
• American Society for Clinical Investigation
• American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
• The Transplantation Society