Bethany Moore, PhD, a professor in the Division of Microbiology and Immunobiology at the University of Michigan, gave a spirited talk on “Innate and Adaptive Immunity and Pulmonary Complications post-Stem Cell Transplant” as a guest speaker Feb. 21 in the University of Arizona Medicine Grand Rounds.
You can watch archived video from her lecture here: https://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/event/index.cfm?id=27947
Among those attending were (pictured right, from left) Eugene Bleecker, MD, and Deborah Meyer, PhD, co-chiefs, UA Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine; Fernando Martinez, MD, director, UA Health Sciences Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center; Dr. Moore; respiratory scientist Julie Ledford, PhD; and Monica Kraft, MD, chair, UA Department of Medicine, and deputy director, UAHS Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center.
Drs. Kraft and Martinez asked a number of pertinent questions during the Q&A portion of the event, regarding research being done at the University of Arizona and BIO5 Institute related to Dr. Moore’s work and how results may dovetail together. Dr. Moore said she looked forward to learning more about genetic studies under way at the UA and recent breakthroughs related to asthma as well as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis therapies that parallel her research.
Dr. Moore received her doctorate in Immunology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1992 and did her post-doctoral training at UT Southwestern and Stanford University in the fields of molecular immunology. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1997. She is currently the Galen B. Toews, MD, Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Graduate Program in Immunology. Her research focuses on pulmonary complications of stem cell transplantation, regulation of innate and adaptive immunity, and development of lung fibrosis.
The lecture took place in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, Room 5403, and was simulcast to Banner – University Medical Center South, Conference Room 3030, 2800 E. Ajo Way, Tucson. All Medicine Grand Rounds occur from noon-1 p.m., Wednesdays.
To view the archive webpage for Medicine Grand Rounds, click here.
—David Mogollón