Peter Stastny, MD

Professor
Internal Medicine, Pathology
Graduate Program: Immunology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

peter.stastny@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Education

ResidencyParkland Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine (1964)
FellowshipUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Rheumatology (1963)
InternshipLoayza Hospital, Rotating (1960)
Medical SchoolSan Marcos University (1957)

Research Interests

Anthropological studies of HLA antigens
Autoimmunity and histocompatibility antigens
Immunology of allograft rejection
Major and Minor Histocompatibility Antigens
Molecular methods for histocompatibility testing

Publications

Featured
Antibodies against MICA antigens and kidney-transplant rejection.

Zou Y, Stastny P, Süsal C, Döhler B, Opelz G, The New England journal of medicine, 2007 Sep; 357 (13):1293-300

Featured
HLA-D region-associated determinants serve as targets for human cell-mediated lysis.

Feighery C, Stastny P , Journal of Experimental Medicine , 1979; (149):485

Featured
Association of the B-cell alloantigen DRw4 with rheumatoid arthritis.

Stastny P , New England Journal of Medicine , 1977; (298):449

Production of Autoantibodies against Citrullinated Antigens/Peptides by Human B Cells

Maria F. Bellatin, Mei Han, Margarita Fallena, Lin Fan, Donglan Xia, Nancy Olsen, Valerie Branch, David Karp, and Peter Stastny, The Journal of Immunology, 2012; 188:000-000

Natural killer cell crossmatch functional analysis of inhibitory killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and their HLA ligands.

Han M, Fallena M, Guo Y, Stastny P , Human Immunology , 2007; (68):507

Introduction: MICA/MICB in innate immunity, adaptive immunity, autoimmunity, cancer and in the immune response to transplants.

Stastny P , Human Immunology , 2006; (67):141

MICA antigens stimulate T cell proliferation and cell-mediated cytotoxicity.

Zhang Y, Stastny P , Human Immunology , 2006; (67):215

Detection of anti-MICA antibodies in patients awaiting kidney transplantation, during the post-transplant course and in eluates from rejected kidney allografts by Luminex flow cytometry.

Zou Y, Heinemann FM, Grosse-Wilde H, Sireci G, Wang Z, Lavingia B, Stastny P , Human Immunology , 2006; (67):230

Effect of human cytomegalovirus on expression of MHC class I-related chains A.

Zou Y, Bresnahan W, Taylor RT, Stastny P , Journal of Immunology , 2005; (174):3098

Honors/Awards

Master of the American College of Rheumatology

Recognition for research performed (1997)

Pemberton Memorial Lecture

Philadelphia (1977)

VA Clinical Investigator

Research support (1971)

Arthritis Foundation Fellow

Research Fellowship (1965)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Association of Immunologists

American College of Rheumatology

American Society for Clinical Investigation

American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics

The Transplantation Society