Dr. Luster is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Director of the Research Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, and the E. Alexandria and Michael N. Altman Chair in Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is the Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Luster received his B.S. degree in 1981 summa cum laude from Duke University, his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1987, and his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1988. Dr. Luster pursued his residency in medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. In 1994, Dr. Luster established his laboratory at MGH, and in 2000, he was appointed Chief of a new Division in the Department of Medicine focused on basic, translational and clinical immunology.

Over the past four decades, Dr. Luster has been intimately associated with the development of the chemokine field. He has been a pioneer in this field and has made multiple seminal contributions to understanding the roles of this important family of immunoregulatory chemotactic cytokines in health and diseases since his initial discovery of CXCL10 (IP-10). His laboratory has helped define how chemokines and lipid chemoattractants function in immune cell trafficking necessary to generate innate and adaptive immune responses in host responses to infectious pathogens and cancer, as well as in the pathogenesis of immune and inflammatory diseases, including autoimmune and allergic diseases.

Dr. Luster has received numerous awards and honors, including a Damon Runon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Cancer Research Institute Investigator Award, a Culpeper Medical Scientist Award, an NIH MERIT Award, the 2011 Lee C. Howely Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research from the Arthritis Foundation, and Keynote Lecturers at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemotactic Cytokines and the European Conference on Chemokines and Cell Migration. He has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Scientist by Clarivate Web of Science and a Top Medicine Scientist and Top Immunology Scientist in the world and United States by Research.com.