Daniella Muallem Schwartz MD

Summary

• Daniella M. Schwartz completed her B.A. in Biochemistry and French at Rice University followed by an MD at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she also served as a chief medical resident. After completing a clinical fellowship in rheumatology at the National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in T cell epigenetics with Dr. John O'Shea and studied inborn errors of immunity under the mentorship of Dr. Joshua Milner, Dr. Daniel Kastner, and Dr. Pamela Guererrio. In 2022, Dr. Schwartz was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology. Her lab investigates mechanisms of immune dysregulation, with a focus on genetic and epigenetic regulation. She is the co-director of the Pittsburgh Immunogenetics Discovery Center (PIDC) and of the UPMC Autoinflammatory Center of Excellence. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and was awarded the NPF Robertson Fellowship (2018), the ASCI Young Physician Scientist Award (2020), and the ICIS Regeneron Young Investigator Award (2024).