Allison R. Greenplate, PhD

Director of Strategic Alliance & Operations for Institute of Immunology and Immune Health (I3H)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics

About Me

Dr. Allie Greenplate is the Director of Strategic Alliance & Operations for Penn Medicine’s Institute for Immunology and Immune Health. She received her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in 2018 and performed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania from 2019-2020. Dr. Greenplate has over a decade of experience in microbiology and immunology, with specific expertise in longitudinal immune monitoring, systems immunology, and computational immunology. She helped pioneer the use of mass cytometry for deep immune profiling of clinical samples to support clinical care. Under Dr. Greenplate’s leadership, Immune Health has become a central hub for performing patient immune assays at the University of Pennsylvania and delivering results to clinicians. She built a team of over 25 staff, trainees, and faculty spanning 4 pillars. Together, they have enrolled, processed, and analyzed the immune systems of over 2,500 subjects, and generating over a dozen publications and one new test delivered to the electronic medical record.