Rebecca Sosa, PhD
Contact Information
Rebecca Sosa, PhD, F(ACHI)
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Phone: 310-206-3216
Email: [email protected]
Academic Title
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Education
PhD, University of Texas in San Antonio, 2013
Fellowship
University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Bio
Dr. Rebecca A. Sosa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Assistant Director of the UCLA Immunogenetics Center (UIC), where she provides services to the solid organ and stem cell transplant communities through diagnostic testing and interpretation. Dr. Sosa earned her PhD in 2013 from the University of Texas in San Antonio in cellular immunology, where she became interested in the crosstalk between innate and adaptive immune responses in chronic subclinical inflammatory disease states. She then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in 2019 at UCLA investigating the critical health care concern regarding ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in patients undergoing solid organ transplantation. During this time, she further developed the technology to analyze three-dimensional cellular and molecular interactions within tissue samples, towards the investigation of major immune mediators of allograft injury. She completed a subsequent clinical fellowship in transplant immunology at DGSOM in June 2021 and is board certified as a fellow of the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Dr. Sosa has a passion for patient-oriented research and personalized medicine, and her current research efforts are focused on transplantation tolerance, injury and outcomes.