Pooja Jain
Drexel College of Medicine, USA
Biography
Pooja Jain is a tenured Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, USA. She also holds joint appointment as a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at DrexelMed. She is well respected in the field of Neurovirology/Neuroimmunology and made seminal contributions with her studies on HTLV-associated cancer and neuroinflammation with prime focus on the dendritic cells. She provided first live in vivo imaging evidence of dendritic cells’ trafficking into the central nervous system during an active ongoing neuroinflammatory condition and extended her pioneering observations in defining the molecular events and mechanisms underlining cellular migration across the blood-brain barrier. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, over 250 abstracts and numerous invited talks across United States and overseas. She has been bestowed with various honors and has served in several NIH study sections. She is currently a Member of AAI, ASM, SFN, ISNV, SNIP and a Life Member for the International Society for Dendritic Cell & Vaccine Science.
Abstract
Abstract : Neuro-immune cross talk and dendritic cells based immunotherapies for neurological diseases