Spring 2009: Alaska WWAMI Science in Medicine lecture on novel strategies for treating infections

by Kathleen McCoy  |   

Today, April 8, 3:30 p.m.
New location: Engineering Building, Room 324

Dr. Abhay Satoskar will present an Alaska WWAMI Science in Medicine Lecture titled, "Denying Access to Safe Havens to Prevent Insurgency: A Novel Strategy for Treating Infections." Dr. Satoskar is a faculty candidate for the Alaska WWAMI Professorship of Biomedical Sciences. He is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at Ohio State University.

Dr. Satoskar's laboratory research at Ohio State focuses on understanding the immune mechanisms that determine the outcome of "New World" cutaneous and visceral Leishmaniasis caused by L. mexicana and L. donovani respectively. His laboratory is particularly interested in studying the role of cytokines in regulation of immune responses during infection from these two species of Leishmania, and the use of cytokine and cytokine receptor gene deficient mice has been a very powerful tool in these studies.

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