How Bacteria Invade the Brain

How Bacteria Invade the Brain
Dr. Felipe Almeida de Pinho Ribeiro’s first-authored paper “Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion“ was part of the article, “How Bacteria Invade the Brain“. Written by Ekaterina Pesheva and published in Harvard Medical School News & Research. “The meninges are the final tissue barrier before pathogens enter the brain, so we […]

Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion

Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion
Click to read Dr. Felipe Almeida de Pinho Ribeiro’s first-authored paper “Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion“ published in Nature – the leading international weekly journal of science. The meninges are densely innervated by nociceptive sensory neurons that mediate pain and headache. Bacterial meningitis causes life-threatening infections of the meninges and […]

3rd Year Resident Cynthia Wang selected to receive the American Dermatological Association’s 2022 Dermatology Resident/Fellow Research Award

3rd Year Resident Cynthia Wang selected to receive the American Dermatological Association’s 2022 Dermatology Resident/Fellow Research Award
Dr. Wang’s project looked at emergency department (ED) utilization in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Data was used from the IBM® MarketScan® Commercial and Multi-State Medicaid Databases to examine a population of over 20,000 individuals with HS who visited the emergency department for the disease and the factors associated with ED return and dermatology follow-up. Amongst other […]