Irina St.Louis
University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
Biography
Irina St. Louis has completed her MD and Ph.D. degrees from Ural State Medical Academy, Russia. She has completed her Residency in Laboratory Pathology from Russian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education, Moscow. She has joined the Department of Microbiology, at the University of Minnesota, as a Postdoctoral trainee, followed by Fellowships at the University of Minnesota Super computing Institute and Lymphoma Research Foundation. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine. Her current clinical project focuses on the identification of molecular biomarkers for immune restoration diseases. She is engaged in many clinical studies, within the Global Health and International Medicine Program. These studies involve the stratification of AIDS patients, for optimal therapies and examining the immunopathogenesis of immune restoration disorders, with an emphasis on defining the activation, maturation, and regulation of the immune cell subsets involved. The studies also include searches for biomarkers of Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS).
Abstract
Abstract : Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with HIV and cryptococcosis