Chagas Disease

Louis M. Weiss M.D., M.P.H is Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Pathology (Division of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Weiss received his M.D. and M.P.H degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1982. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following this fellowship, he joined the faculty at Einstein where he is currently a Professor of Pathology and Medicine. His laboratory group has an active research program on parasitic diseases with a research focus on Toxoplasma gondii, the Microsporidia and Trypanosoma cruzi. Dr. Weiss is the author of over 200 publications and the editor of 3 books on parasitology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the Co-Director of the Einstein Global Health Center.

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Epidemiology,Control Measures & Population Biology

louis Kirchhoff

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Acute and Congenital Chagas Diseases

Caryn Bern

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Cell Based Therapy in Chagas Disease

Campos de Carvalho

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Therapy Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylase

Galina Lepsheva, Fernando Villata & Micheal Waterman

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Experimental Chemotherapy

Federick bruckner

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Vaccines for Chagas Diseases

Nisha Garg

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Population Genetics of Chagas Disease

Blangero

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Triatomine Biology

Steve Klotz

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Animal Models and Imaging

Herbert Tanowitz & Linda Jelicks

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The Genome and its Implications

Santuza Teixeira

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Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruzi

John Kelly, Martin Taylor & Huan Huang

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Nuclear Structure

Sergio Scehnkman

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Stage Differentiation

Samuel Goldenberg

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Acidocalcisome

Roberto Delcampo

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Signaling Pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi

Huan Huang

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Ecosanoids in Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Anthony Ashton, Fabiana Machado & herbert tanowitz

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Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on its Host Cells and Invasion

Babara Burleigh

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Gap Junctions and Trypanosoma cruzi

David Spray

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Vasculopathy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Herbert Tanowitz

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Bradykinin& Endothelin and Vasculopathy

Scharfstein & marcus Rossi

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Autoimmunity

Edecio Cunha-Neto

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Oxidative stress and Chagas disease

Nisha Garg

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Inflammation in Chagas disease

Mauro Teixeira

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Parasite Derived Neurotrophic Factors

Mercio Pereira-Perrin

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Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas Disease

Herbert Tanowitz, FNU Nagayothi & Phillip Scherer

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Epilogue:The Next 100 Years

Herbert Tanowitz, Louis Weiss & Louis Kirchhoff