麻豆传媒

Dr. Kurrelmeyer began her research activities while still a cardiology fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine where she won the Best Basic Research Award in 1998. That same year, she was also the recipient of the American Heart Association Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Science. Dr. Kurrelmeyer stayed at Baylor after completing her fellowship and was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine there in 2000. She joined the Physician麓s Organization at Methodist in 2005 and received her faculty appointment at the Weill Medical School the following year.

Dr. Kurrelmeyer麓s research centers on the role of inflammatory cytokines on disease progression in heart failure. She also conducts investigations into new treatments for diastolic heart failure and aortic regurgitation.

Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)

Professional memberships
and associations
Board Member of International Society of Exercise and Immunology (www.isei.dk)
Member of American Physiological Society (www.the-aps.org)
F1000 Prime Faculty Member (Muscle & Connective Tissue)
Associate Editor of Exercise Immunology Review
Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Sports and Exercise Nutrition
Senior Research Affiliate, Queensland Academy of Sport
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland

Liang鈥檚 research explores basic mechanisms underlying fundamental cellular processes in inflammation, infection, and cancer, broadly focusing on autophagy, organelle homeostasis, genomic stability, membrane trafficking, and virus-host interaction.

Liang obtained her M.D. degree from Qingdao University School of Medicine, China, and her Ph.D. degree in genetics from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. She received postdoctoral training in tumor virology at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. She established her laboratory in 2009 in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, where she was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2015. Liang joined The Wistar Institute as a professor in 2020.

I received a B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.S. from Springfield College (MA), and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina at Columbia  all  in  the  area  of  kinesiology/exercise  science.  I  also  completed  a  post-doctoral  fellowship  at  the  Minneapolis  Medical  Research  Foundation  in  the  area  of neuroimmunology.  I am currently a Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health with  additional  appointments  in  the  Division  of  Nutritional  Sciences  and the Carle-Illinois  College of  Medicine  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana/Champaign. My expertise are in exercise physiology, and more specifically the effects of exercise on the immune system, the gut microbiome, and aging. I have mentored 30 graduate students, 2 post-doctoral fellows, and have received campus recognition for guiding undergraduate research. I have authored over 130 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles  and  have  been  a  Principal or  Co-Investigator  on >$22  million of  funded federal and industry sponsored research.

LJI Associate Professor Sonia Sharma, Ph.D., is an expert in using unbiased, genome-scale approaches to unravel innate immunity, the body’s early immune response to microbial pathogens and neoplastic cells. Innate immunity has also been implicated as a common causal factor in many inflammatory, allergic and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Sharma integrates cutting-edge genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, computational and translational approaches to define the key genetic mechanisms regulating cellular innate immunity and determine how they impact human health and disease.
Dr. Sharma has an outstanding record of research accomplishments, including high impact discoveries published in top scientific journals. Her work has made her an internationally recognized expert in the use of high throughput, genome scale approaches, in particular RNA interference and CRISPR/Cas9, to dissect complex cellular signaling pathways and questions of immunological relevance. Her use of these technologies is a powerful tool that can be applied to any cellular pathway or disease process.
Dr. Sharma also directs the La Jolla Institute for Immunology's Sex-Based Differences in the Immune System Initiative, which aims to shed light on why many diseases affect men and women differently.

 investigates bioactive peptides and proteins in foods that promote health benefits for reducing inflammation, markers of type 2 diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease risk. She identifies and characterizes the functional properties of food components, notably flavonoids in ethnic teas, herbs, and berries.
More information: Molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention of bioactive food components, mainly proteins and flavonoids, and their safety. The de Mejia lab studies food components with health benefits; analysis, characterization and mechanism of action of antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic compounds in foods (legumes, oilseeds and vegetables). They currently are working with bioactive proteins in different legumes. The research group investigates the role of processing on the presence, concentration and physicochemical characteristics of proteins with biological potential against transformed human cells as well as their safety, such as allergenic potential. They also are studying the health benefits of tea, in particular the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological effects of ethnic teas used in folk medicine to combat several disorders, including cancer. This scientific study will introduce new materials to improve human health.
Affiliations: Dr. de Mejia is a professor in the  and the , both part of the  (ACES) at the .