Lehn Weaver, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Weaver is studying how non-infectious immune responses are induced and sustained, leading to chronic inflammation and autoimmunity. As a pediatric rheumatologist, Dr. Weaver’s research aims to understand how chronic inflammation develops before the onset of autoimmunity to inform future attempts at intervention and prevention of certain rheumatic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, especially as they affect children. This research could be beneficial to patients like Ally, whose disease onset began early in life.