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About the Joint Space Immunology Laboratory
Dr. Cyndari is an Emergency Medicine physician dedicated to improving outcomes for all her patients. The Cyndari Laboratory studies the immune response within the joint space during infectious and inflammatory arthritis. These studies implement a unique ex-vivo system using synovial tissue from human patients. This Joint Space Analysis system (JSAS) allows research in a human model to further understand the arthritic joint space and identify new potential treatment targets.
Meet the Lab Members
Learn more about the Researchers that make up the Cyndari Lab!
About the Research
Learn more about the research that is done in the Cyndari Lab.
Welcoming
To trainees from diverse backgrounds and experiences
Partnership
Emergency Medicine, Immunology, Epidemiology
Novel
Human Based Tissue Assays
Cyndari Lab News
Check out the latest news and events happening in the Cyndari Laboratory!
2025 American Association of Immunologists Conference
May 2025, Dr. Cyndari, KariAn Mulford, and KB Butler presented posters at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their presentations were entitled, "B. burgdorferi Infection Alters Synovial Macrophage Response in a Human ex vivo Model of Lyme Arthritis" and "The Effect of Infectious and inflammatory stimuli on the Synovium and Resident Synovial Macrophages in a Novel Human Explant Model."
2025 International Conference: Lyme Borreliosis
September 2025, Dr. Karen Cyndari and KariAn Mulford will present their work at the 2025 International Conference: Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases. Their presentation is entitled, "B. burgdorferi Infection Alters Synovial Macrophage Response in a Human ex vivo Model of Lyme Arthritis."