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A. Personal Statement I am an active, practicing vascular surgeon who has also maintained an independently funded basic science/translational research laboratory since 2003. My clinical practice is focused on the care…
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Our research focuses on cancer with a special interest in glioblastoma, the most aggressive tumor type of the brain which to date is still considered a deadly disease. Our lab…
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Research Interests: Role of lipid oxidation products in inflammation and vascular immunology in atherosclerosis and diabetes. 1. Resolution of acute and propagation of chronic inflammation. 2. Mechanisms of endothelial-monocyte interaction in chronic…
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Innate immunity provides the first line of defense against pathogens, which is critically important to limit their replication and spread. However, overactivation of innate immunity causes autoimmune diseases and may…
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All the way up to the 20th century, the human genome has been optimized to survive in environments characterized by fluctuations between periods of feast and famine. These survivor-genomes clash…
6/17/2025
Identification of Factors and Mechanisms that Regulate the Stability of Late Stage Atherosclerotic Lesions and the Probability of Thromboembolic Events Including a Heart Attack or StrokeAtherothrombosis, resulting from rupture or…
6/17/2025
Systems analysis has become a requirement for making sense of high-throughput data and for characterizing properties of biological networks. In order to extend these recent developments to medical applications, there…
6/17/2025
Much of our work focuses on cell signaling and mechanisms of lineage specification, differentiation and morphogenesis. Particular emphases have been on post-embryonic neural crest stem cells and their derivatives, including…
6/17/2025
The overarching goal of our research is functional understanding of molecular alterations in lung cancer. To that end, we determine impacts of genomic and transcriptomic alterations on tumor development and…
