John Varga

John Varga MD is the John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor in Rheumatology at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Varga studies fibrosis, the process of (scarring) that results from injury in the skin, lungs, kidney and heart in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Scar formation in these organs is a significant health problem and a major unmet medical need.

Varga’s research combines clinical and laboratory-based investigation. The studies have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and the Scleroderma Foundation, which named him the its “Doctor of the Year” in 2006.

Author of more than 20 30 book chapters, 2 books and more than 120220 journal articles, he has published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation, New England Journal of Medicine, and the American Journal of Pathology

Varga received the “Fifty Heroes” award in 2001 from the Arthritis Foundation. In 2007, he was elected as member of the Association of American Physicians.

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Varga served on the faculty at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and as Director of Rheumatology at the University of Illinois Chicago. In 2007, he was elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians.