Föreläsningar och seminarier Seminarium: Dr. Annelise Barron
Alzheimer's Disease as the consequence of chronic polymicrobial infections that dysregulate both innate and adaptive immune responses
Talare
Dr. Annelise Barron
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University, USA
Titel
Alzheimer's Disease as the consequence of chronic polymicrobial infections that dysregulate both innate and adaptive immune responses
Värd
Peter Bergman, Division of Clinical immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine
Om Dr. Barron
The Barron lab study biomimicry, and upregulation of natural human host defense peptides (antimicrobial peptides), a key element of our bodies' innate immune defense against pathogens. They study the molecular biophysics and anti-infective mechanisms of LL-37—a centrally important human host defense peptide—and its role(s) in preventing Alzheimer's & Parkinson's diseases.
Dr. Barron is a chemical and biological engineer with a keen interest in systems-level analyses of the mechanisms of complex human diseases. She was trained in chemical engineering at the University of Washington (B.S., 1990) and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D., 1995, mentored by Prof. Harvey W. Blanch), and was a Pharmaceutical Chemistry postdoc with Prof. Ken A. Dill (UCSF) and Dr. Ronald N. Zuckermann (Chiron Corp.). She has served on the faculty at Stanford since 2007, and prior to that, worked on the Chemical & Biological Engineering faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL for 10 years (1997-2007). Dr. Barron has been awarded the NIH Pioneer Award via the NIH National Institute on Aging (2020), the Oskar Fischer Award (2022), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) through NIH / NHGRI (1999), the Beckman Young Investigator Award (1999), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1998), among other awards. Dr. Barron was the youngest scientist ever to serve on the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH, under Dr. Elias Zerhouni. She has more than 177 publications and a current H-index of 58 (Web of Science, All Databases, Barron Annelise E), and is a co-founder and serves on the advisory boards of 5 different biotechnology companies.