Joseph Craft, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Immunobiology

Dr. Craft is Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Immunobiology, and Chief of the Section of Rheumatology. He has directed the Yale Investigative Medicine Program since 2004. He is an internationally recognized expert on the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases, investigating both animal models of these diseases and patients in the clinic. He has been funded by the NIH since 1985 and is currently an NIH MERIT Awardee. Dr. Craft is also the Principal Investigator of an NIH T32 grant devoted to training of physician- and Ph.D.-scientists in the clinical investigation of rheumatic diseases, now in its 32nd year of continual funding, and as PI, has successfully shepherded that grant through three competitive renewals. He has served as a mentor to more than 40 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, medical students, and rheumatology fellows, many of whom have taken positions in academia or industry.