Tenure Track Investigator
NIAMS/NIH
Dr. Grayson is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He completed his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1999, his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004, and a Masters in Science from Boston University in 2008. He served as a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center and completed an additional two-year vasculitis fellowship within the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium.
Currently, a tenure track investigator at NIAMS, Dr. Grayson’s research focuses on clinical and translational research across many forms of systemic vasculitis. Specifically, his work has focused on biomarker discovery/development, the use of advanced molecular imaging, molecular classification of disease, clinical trials, and genetics/genomics of vasculitis. His group has clinically defined the use of advanced molecular imaging as a surrogate marker of vascular inflammation in large-vessel vasculitis. His group has conducted some of the only translational work related to relapsing polychondritis, including the identification of somatic mutations in UBA1 as a driver of disease in a subset of these patients. Translational work from the group has also defined novel pathways of neutrophil-mediated inflammation in monogenic vasculitis and drug-induced vasculitis and has identified novel biomarkers of disease activity in many forms of vasculitis that suggest novel therapeutic targets.
Dr. Grayson has a strong commitment to mentoring young investigators in rare disease research. He is actively involved in leadership roles within the American College of Rheumatology and was a recipient of the American College of Rheumatology’s Distinguished Fellow Award in 2011. He has served on the editorial board for Arthritis & Rheumatology and the Journal of Rheumatology. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Vasculitis Foundation and is a Steering Committee member on the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium.
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Keynote: Vasculitis in the modern era
Saturday, September 9, 2023
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM EDT