Robin Sheherella Stephens Email
Associate Professor @Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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WORK HISTORY
Associate Professor @Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ, US
EDUCATION
New York University
Master's degree
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Ph.D.
Cornell University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
New York University School of Medicine
M.S.
ABOUT ROBIN SHEHERELLA STEPHENS EMAIL
I am an immunologist focusing on malaria and COVID-19. My lab is NIH funded and focuses on two main areas: T cell memory, and neuroinflammation resulting from infection with the blood stage of Plasmodium chabaudi, a rodent model of malaria. We identified a pathway for differentiation of effector memory CD4 T cells in P. chabaudi, and have now shown the importance of effector T cells in protection. We work to understand the factors important in inducing and maintaining protective T cells in order to improve methods for malaria vaccination promoting long-lived protection. Longevity of protection is one of the major caveats of current approaches. Other interests include the role of inflammation-induced coagulation on the integrity of the glial-vascular unit during Plasmodium infection, the metabolism of T cells as they differentiate and protect, and the role of T/B cell collaboration in limitation of hyper-parasitemia. During the pandemic, we have focused on understanding immune-regulation of severity using mouse adapted SARS-CoV-2 and will seek to extend these studies to understand the immunopathology of COVID-19.
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