Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Dr. Kraft received his training in pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in dermatology at University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany. He is board certified in anatomic pathology and dermatopathology and currently a staff member in the dermatopathology and ENT pathology units. His research interests are inflammatory skin disorders, mesenchymal neoplasms of the skin, HPV-associated carcinomas of the head and neck, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Research

Research interests include:

• Inflammatory skin disorders
• Role of IgE-receptor bearing Langerhans cells and mast cells in allergic diseases
• Mesenchymal tumors of the skin
• Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
• HPV-positive oropharyngeal carcinomas
• Molecular pathology of melanoma

Publications

View my most recent publications at PubMed

Kraft S, Faquin WC, and Krane JF. HPV-associated oropharyngeal neuroendocrine carcinoma. A rare new entity with potentially aggressive clinical behavior. Am J Surg Pathol 2012; 36:321-330.

Kraft S, We?endorf JH, Hanau D, Bieber T. Regulation of the high affinity receptor for IgE on human epidermal Langerhans cells. J Immunol 1998; 161:1000-1006.

Kraft S, Fleming T, Billingsley JM, Lin SY, Jouvin MH, Storz P, Kinet JP. Anti-CD63 antibodies suppress IgE-dependent allergic reactions in vitro and in vivo. J Exp Med 2005; 201:385-396.

Vig M, Peinelt C, Beck A, Koomoa DL, Rabah D, Koblan-Huberson M, Kraft S, Turner H, Fleig A, Penner R, Kinet JP. CRACM1 is a plasma membrane protein essential for store-operated Ca2+ entry. Science 2006; 312:1220-1223.

Kraft S, and Fletcher CDM. Atypical intradermal smooth muscle neoplasms: clinicopathologic analysis of 84 cases and a reappraisal of cutaneous leiomyosarcoma. Am J Surg Pathol 2011; .35:599-607