Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D.

Adrian Erlebacher received his B.S. degree from Yale University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California San Francisco in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In between his undergraduate and graduate work, he spent a year studying music composition in Cambridge, England. His graduate work was performed in the laboratory of Rik Derynck, where he studied the regulation of bone remodeling by the growth factor TGF-β. For his postdoctoral studies, Dr. Erlebacher joined the laboratory of Laurie Glimcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he embarked upon his work on mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance. Dr. Erlebacher joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the NYU School of Medicine in 2006, and then moved back to UCSF in 2016 to join the Department of Laboratory Medicine. He is a member of the UCSF ImmunoX program, the UCSF Center for Reproductive Sciences, and the UCSF Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Graduate program. His honors include an American Cancer Society Research Scholar award, presentation of the Presidential Session invited lecture for the American Society of Reproductive Immunology, presentation of the Raymond O. Berry Lecture at Texas A&M University, and a Preterm Birth Initiative grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.