Manish Butte, MD PhD
Biography
Manish J. Butte, MD PhD is the E. Richard Stiehm endowed Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA, with joint appointments in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Human Genetics. In Pediatrics, he is Chief of the Division of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology.
His bachelors degree and MD are from Brown. He then went to UCSF to earn a PhD in Biophysics. His clinical training included residency in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a clinical fellowship in Allergy & Immunology at Boston Children's Hospital. He did post-doctoral research at Harvard. He started a faculty career at Stanford, and then was recruited to UCLA in 2016.
His research lab studies T cells with projects on infections, autoimmunity, vaccines, metabolism, and cancer. His work has been funded by the NIH, NSF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and philanthropy.
His clinical focus is on rare, genetic immune diseases (also called primary immunodeficiency or inborn errors of immunity). He cares for children and adults at UCLA. His clinical work is been funded by the NIH, companies, and the Jeffrey Modell Foundation.
Dr. Butte's lab has published over 130 papers. He was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2021. He was elected as an inaurgural Fellow of the Clinical Immunology Society in 2021 as well.