Inside the Immune System: Uncover...

Inside the Immune System: Uncovering the Triggers Behind Spondyloarthritis

Spondycast by The Spondylitis Association of America (SAA)

S3 · E31

Mar 4, 2026

40:45

Episode notes

Kristen Mengwasser, MD, PhD, physician-scientist and Assistant Adjunct Professor of Rheumatology at UCSF — and SAA’s 2025 Early Career Investigator Award winner — joins us to discuss her research on how the immune system triggers axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).

Keywords

research

ankylosing spondylitis

immune system

peptides

HLA-B27 gene