
Peter Stastny, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
School Medical School
Department Internal Medicine
Education
- Medical School
- San Marcos University - Peru (1958)
Research Interest
- Anthropological studies of HLA antigens
- Autoimmunity and histocompatibility antigens
- Immunology of allograft rejection
- Major and Minor Histocompatibility Antigens
- Molecular methods for histocompatibility testing
Publications
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
Honors & Awards
- 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)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Association of Immunologists
- American College of Rheumatology
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
- The Transplantation Society