Description of Research Expertise
Immunology
Spatial imaging, Spatial transcriptomics, and bioinformatics
Single cell sequencing
High parameter spectral flow cytometry
Hidradenitis suppurativa
T cells
Tertiary lymphoid structures
Research protocols for prospective sample collection
Selected Publications
Fang V, Lee M, Zellmer A…Payne A, Oldridge D, Wherry EJ.: "Spatial mapping of hidradenitis suppurativa lesions at single-cell resolution" from Abstracts of the 9th Annual Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances 2024 Dermatology and Therapy 15 (3): 483-562,2025.
Fang V, Gupta R, Micheletti RG.: Managing Hidradenitis Suppurativa with Biologics and Small Molecule Inhibitors Dermatol Clin : 2025.
Yu WW, Barrett JNP, Tong J, Lin MJ, Marohn M, Devlin JC, Herrera A, Remark J, Levine J, Liu PK, Fang V, Zellmer AM, Oldridge DA, Wherry EJ, Lin JR, Chen JY, Sorger P, Santagata S, Krueger JG, Ruggles KV, Wang F, Su C, Koralov SB, Wang J, Chiu ES, Lu CP.: Skin immune-mesenchymal interplay within tertiary lymphoid structures promotes autoimmune pathogenesis in hidradenitis suppurativa Immunity 57 : 2827-2842,2024.
Lee M, Fang V, Vanguri R, Zellmer A, Baxter A, Kim D, Oldridge D, Wherry E.J.: A multi-modal image pipeline for automated generation of large, labeled H&E image datasets. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) : 2023.
Mintz MA, Jariwala N, Fang V, Coromilas A, Rosenbach M.: Livedo reticularis on bilateral knees after the third dose of messenger RNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine JAAD Int. 7 : 52-53,2022.
Sano T, Kageyama T, Fang V, Kedmi R, Martinez CS, Talbot J, Chen A, Cabrera I, Gorshko O, Kurakake R, Yang Y, Ng C, Schwab SR, Littman DR.: Redundant cytokine requirement for intestinal microbiota-induced Th17 cell differentiation in draining lymph nodes Cell Rep 36 : 109608,2021.
Okuniewska M, Fang V, Baeyens A, Raghavan V, Lee JY, Littman DR, Schwab SR.: SPNS2 enables T cell egress from lymph nodes during an immune response Cell Rep 36 : 109368,2021.
Alam M, Fang V, Rosenbach M.: Treatment of cutaneous sarcoidosis with tofacitinib 2% ointment and extra virgin olive oil JAAD Case Reports 9 : 1-3,2021.
Fang V, Gillespie C, Crowe R, Popeo D, Jay M.: Associations between medical students' beliefs about obesity and clinical counseling proficiency BMC Obes 6 : 5,2019.
Mendoza A, Fang V, Chen C, Serasinghe M, Verma A, Muller J, Chaluvadi VS, Dustin ML, Hla T, Elemento O, Chipuk JE, Schwab SR.: Lymphatic endothelial S1P promotes mitochondrial function and survival in naive T cells Nature 546 : 158-161,2017.
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