A2DRC Research Update Seminar with Dr. Donata Vercelli

The Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center (A2DRC) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Tucson Campus Presents:

“Not All Eosinophils Are Created Equal: Lessons from Gnotobiotic Mice”

SPEAKER:
Donata Vercelli, MD
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson;
Director, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, UA BIO5 Institute; and
Associate Director, UA Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center

Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 4 – 5 p.m.
UAHS Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Room 2343
(2nd or main floor of UA College of Medicine – Tucson, west of the BUMCT Hospital Administration Office)

About the Speaker
Dr. Donata Vercelli is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Arizona, the associate director of the UAHS Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center and the director of the Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases at the UA BIO5 Institute. Dr. Vercelli received her medical degree from the University of Florence, Italy. After training in hematology and immunology/allergy, she became a research fellow in the Division of Immunology at Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 1986, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1991. In 1994, she became the director of the Molecular Immunoregulation Unit at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, and, in 1999, she joined the Arizona Respiratory Center (now the UAHS Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center) at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Vercelli’s research is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (units of the National Institutes of Health) and industry, and has been recognized by the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award (1989), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Developing Investigator Award (1991), the Developing Investigator Award of the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America (1989), and the Women Physician in Allergy Award from the AAAAI (2001). Furthermore, she received the 14th Kwasman Memorial Lectureship for Asthma Research (University of Rochester, 2001), the Alec Sehon Distinguished Professorship in Immunology (University of Manitoba, 2002), the Burton Zweiman Lectureship (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2003), the Paul Man Lectureship in Pulmonary Diseases (University of Alberta, 2010), the Gilles Filley Lectureship in Epigenetics of Asthma (Aspen Conference on Pulmonary Diseases, 2015) and the Philip Fireman Lectureship (11th International Nemacolin Asthma Conference, 2016). For her work on the asthma-protective effects of farming, in 2017, Dr. Vercelli received a Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award and the Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award, both from the Clinical Research Forum.

Dr. Vercelli also has served as a journal editor, meeting organizer and scientific board member. In 2006, she organized and chaired the Keystone Symposium on “Allergy, Allergic Inflammation and Asthma.” In 2007, she joined the International Scientific Advisory Board of the GABRIEL European Project on Gene-Environment Interactions. In 2010, she became an elected member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and, from 2005 to 2012, she was the associate editor for genetics of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. From 2011 to 2014, she was on the international advisory board for the Germany/Finland/China Trilateral Project on Farming Studies.

Please join us!

Contact: Eva Barrow | evachere@email.arizona.edu