James G. Krueger MD, PhD

James G, Krueger, MD, Ph.D. is Head of the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at the Rockefeller University. He also serves as a Physician, Co-director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the Rockefeller University Hospital, and Chief Executive Officer of the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. Dr.Krueger earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in virology and cell biology from Rockefeller University. He received an MD from Cornell University Medical College, where he also completed an internship in internal medicine and residency in dermatology. Dr.Krueger is certified by the American Board of Dermatology. James G. Krueger's research group at Rockefeller was the first to conduct clinical trials with specific, targeted immune antagonists in psoriasis, and this work established the elimination of pathogenic T-cells from skin lesions could reverse the full pathological phenotype of psoriasis. He has been an advocate of bidirectional translational research in humans using psoriasis as a model inflammatory disease to dissect pathogenic pathways that cannot be studied in animal models.