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Irene Jarchum
Associate Editor, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Research
Irene Jarchum obtained her PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, where she studied the specificity of autoreactive T cells and mechanisms of central tolerance in type 1 diabetes. As a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, her research focused on mucosal immunity against the gut pathogen Clostridium difficile. Working at the Tisch MS Center of New York, she investigated the role of monocytes in multiple sclerosis. She was an editor at Nature Communications before joining the Nature Biotechnology team in 2014.