Kathleen Pratt, Ph.D.
Kathleen P. Pratt, Ph.D.

Name: Kathleen P. Pratt, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Hematologic and immune disorders
Immune tolerance
Education
1984 BS Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1992 PhD Biophysical Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Biography
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- 2014 - present Associate Professor, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD
- 2013-2014 Assistant Professor, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD
- 2008-2013 Assistant Research Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Seattle, WA
- 2006-2013 Assistant Member, Puget Sound Blood Center Research Institute, Seattle, WA
- 2003-2006 Research Scientist, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, WA
- 1999-2003 Staff Scientist, Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
- 2007 - present: Research awards (grants) from Bayer, CSL Behring, Pfizer, Grifols, Inc.
- 2008 “Henri Chaigneau” Prize of the Association Française des Hémophiles
- 2019 Dean's Impact Award, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bibliography
- Pratt KP, Shen BW, Takeshima K, Davie EW, Fujikawa K, Stoddard BL. 1999. Structure of the C2 domain of human factor VIII at 1.5 angstrom resolution. Nature 402: 439-42. PMID: 10586887
- Spiegel PC, Jr., Jacquemin M, Saint-Remy J-MR, Stoddard BL, Pratt KP. 2001. Structure of a factor VIII C2-domain - Immunoglobulin G4k Fab complex: identification of an inhibitory antibody epitope on the surface of factor VIII. Blood98: 13-19. Plenary paper. PMID: 11418455
- James EA, Kwok WW, Thompson AR, Pratt KP. 2007. Analysis of CD4 T-cell responses to FVIII in a mild hemophilia A patient indicates early loss of tolerance to a C2 domain self peptide and sustained loss of tolerance to the wild-type peptide J Thromb Haemostas5:2399-47. PMID: 18034765
- Nguyen P-CT, Lewis KB, Ettinger RA, Schuman JT, Lin JC, Healey JF, Meeks SL, Lollar P, Pratt KP. 2014. High resolution mapping of epitopes on the C2 domain of factor VIII, using surface plasmon resonance. Blood 123(17): 2732-9.PMID: 24591205
- Gunasekera D, Ettinger RA, Liu M-C, Hughes RJ, Epstein MS, Cole SC, Barrett JC, Thompson AA, Withycombe J, Pratt KP. 2015. Factor VIII gene variants and inhibitor risk in hemophilia A patients. Blood 126(7): 895-904. PMID: 25617427
- Ettinger EA, Paz P, James EA, Gunasekera D, Aswad F, Thompson AR, Matthews DC, Pratt KP. T cells from three hemophilia A subjects recognized the same HLA-restricted FVIII epitope with a narrow TCR repertoire. Blood 2016: 128(16):2043-2054. PubMed PMID: 27471234
- Ettinger RA, Liberman JA, Gunasekera D, Puranik K, James EA, Thompson AR, Pratt KP. FVIII proteins with a modified immunodominant T-cell epitope exhibit reduced immunogenicity and normal FVIII activity. Blood Advances 2018: 2(4), 309-322. PubMed PMID: 29444
- Gunasekera D, Zimring JC, Pratt KP. A unique MHCII-binding register correlates with HLA-DR11- associated immunogenicity of the major K blood group antigen. Transfusion 2018: 58(5), 1171-81. PMID: 29464723
- Lacroix-Desmazes S, Voorberg J, Lilicrap D, Scott DW, Pratt KP. Tolerating Factor VIII: Recent Progress. Frontiers in Immunology 2020 Jan 10;10:2991. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02991. PMID: 31998296.
- Karim AF, Soltis AR, Sukumar G, Konigs C, Ewing N, Dalgard CL, Wilkerson MD, Pratt KP. Hemophilia A inhibitor subjects show unique PBMC gene expression profiles that include up- regulated immune modulators. Frontiers in Immunology 2020, June 12. Doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01219. PMCID: PMC7303277