- Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Senior Advisor, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center
Website: Recent Publications by Dr. Soloski
- Ph.D.: Rutgers University, Thesis Title: Vaccinia Virus: Studies on DNA-protein interactions occurring in the cytoplasm of infected cells and in mature virions.
Dr. Soloski has a basic interest in the role that infection plays in setting the stage for chronic immune mediated inflammatory diseases. He investigates the human host immune response to infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. His efforts attempt to identify cellular and/or molecular immune biomarkers that associate with effectiveness of bacterial clearance and/or disease pathophysiology and employs genomic, proteomic and complex immune phenotyping approaches.
A second area of interest is the identification of immune targets in psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. He is utilizing samples from a well-characterized patient cohort to identify novel autoantigens. His approach is to utilize state of the art proteomic and phage display based systems.
In addition to research, Dr Soloski is very excited about the teaching of students, at all levels, about how the immune system evolved, how it protects us from infection and how it can contribute to disease.
