Richard Locksley, M.D.

Richard Locksley, MD, is Sandler Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Sandler Asthma Basic Research (SABRE) Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Locksley received his degree in Biochemistry from Harvard College and his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. He did an internal medicine residency and Chief Medical Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Following a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle, Dr. Locksley became Assistant Professor and Head of Infectious Diseases at the Veterans Hospital at the University of Washington. In 1986, he was recruited back to UCSF as the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 1986-2004. He was appointed the Director of the SABRE Center in 2003, where he continues today. Dr. Locksley has been an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997. His research investigates the cells and cytokines of immunity, with a particular interest in allergic, or type 2, immunity. He was involved in the early studies of allergic T cells, termed Th2 cells, and in the discovery of innate lymphoid cells associated with allergic immunity, designated ILC2s. His student and postdoctoral trainees have populated academic medical centers in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Locksley is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists and an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.