Professor and Associate Chair for Biomedical Research
Department of Medicine
Dr. Erle received an A.B. degree (Biochemistry) from Harvard College in 1980 and an M.D. degree from UCSF in 1984. He was trained in internal medicine and in pulmonary disease at UCSF. As a CVRI research fellow training at the UCSF Lung Biology Center, he studied leukocyte integrins with Robert Pytela and Dean Sheppard. He joined the Lung Biology Center faculty in 1990. His academic activities include laboratory research and clinical teaching. He founded the UCSF Functional Genomics Core Facility.
