She is the Bunning Family Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, the Department of Pathology, and the college at the University of Chicago.
In 2004, Nagler and her colleagues discovered that peanuts provoked anaphylaxis only in mice with a mutated TLR4 receptor, not in genetically related strains with a normal TLR4.
[3] In 2004, Nagler and her colleagues published a report showing that peanuts provoked anaphylaxis only in mice with a mutated TLR4 receptor, not in genetically related strains with a normal TLR4.
Following this discovery, Nagler received a technology pilot award from the Institute for Translational Medicine and teamed up with Jeffrey Hubbell to launch ClostraBio.
[8] Following this, she led a study with scientists from Stanford University which identified fecal microbiome differences in food allergies between pairs of twins.