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Joshua Milner is the Pediatric Allergist and Immunologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Chief of the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Joshua Milner graduated with an S.B. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.D. with distinction in immunology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and, in allergy and immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is a Senior Investigator and the chief of the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases in the NIAID, focusing his research on the genetics and immunology of inherited allergic diseases. His lab has identified multiple such new Primary Atopic Diseases, describing both the genetic cause and immunologic mechanism underlying, applying such knowledge both to affected patients and those with more common allergic disase. As co-founder of the NIAID Program in Clinical Genomics, he helped design and implement GRIS—the Genomic Research Integration System at the NIH. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and is the recipient of the Phadia Allergy Research Forum Award, as well as the Drukier Prize in Pediatric Research from Cornell University.