Dr. Radic is Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (“UTHSC”). Dr. Radic’s research laboratory focuses on the mechanisms leading to autoimmune disease, with an emphasis on antibody-mediated disorders, such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome (APS).
Dr. Radic’s laboratory identified the critical nexus of sustained activation of autoreactive B cells in lupus, and tested immunotherapy with chimeric antigen receptor modified CD8+ T cells (CAR-T) in two murine models of lupus, published in Science Translational Medicine, 2019 (which was recently featured in Nature, Dec 2023). Dr. Radic has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 25 reviews and 10 book chapters. Prior to joining UTHSC in 2000, Dr. Radic was an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Drexel University.
Dr. Radic trained as postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California in Irvine, and received his B.S. in Genetics from the University of California in Davis.
