Andrew R. Pachner, MD
Professor 
Pachner@umdnj.edu
973-972-5208 (Phone) 
973-972-5059 (Fax) 
 

Speciality Areas: 
Neuroimmunology; Neuro-infectious Disease

Education: 
 

Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine, 1971-1975; 

M.D.thesis- the role of cAMP in lymphocyte transformation 
 

Residencies:
 

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Internship and Assistant Residency, Internal Medicine, 1975-1977 

Yale-New Haven Hospital, Fellowship and Chief Residency, Neurology, 1977-1980 
 

Research interests:

neuroimmunology and neuro-infectious diseases, particularly Lyme neuroborreliosis, myasthenia gravis, and multiple sclerosis, experimental models of neuroimmunological disease particularly myasthenia gravis and Lyme neuroborreliosis; production and role of antibody in disease. 
 

Grant Support: 
 

Principal Investigator: The pathogenesis of neuroborreliosis: a molecular analysis, (RO1)-National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders 
 

Principal Investigator: Non-Human Primate Animal Models for Experimental Research on Chronic Lyme Neuroborreliosis (NIH Contract)-National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
 

Selected Articles:
 

Pachner, A.R. and Simon, R.P., Monkey business: CNS infections that won’t go away, Neurology, 51:935-937, 1998 
 

Pachner, A.R. Zhang, W.F. Schaefer, H., Schaefer, S., O'Neill T., Detection of active infection in nonhuman primates with Lyme neuroborreliosis: comparison of PCR, culture, and a bioassay. J Clin Microbiol 36: 3243-7, 1998 
 

Pachner, A.R. Zhang, W.F. Schaefer, H., Schaefer, S., O'Neill T., Detection of active infection in nonhuman primates with Lyme neuroborreliosis: comparison of PCR, culture, and a bioassay. J Clin Microbiol 36: 3243-7, 1998
 

Amemiya, K., Schaefer, H., Pachner, A.R. Isolation of DNA after extraction of RNA to detect the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi and expression of host cellular genes from the same tissue sample. J Clin Microbiol. 37:2087-9, 1999