Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery & The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis;
Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty;
Cellular Physiology & Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Faculty;
Distinguished Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Aging
University of Miami Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine
Publications 2024
Catecholamine-Induced Inflammasome Activation in the Heart Following Photothrombotic Stroke. Translational Stroke Research. 2024 Nov 18.
Inflammasome Proteins are Reliable Biomarkers of the Inflammatory Response in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Cells. 2024, 13(16), 1370.
The Inflammasome Links Traumatic brain injury, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s disease. Neural Regen Res. 2025 Jun 1;20(6):1644-1664. Review
The Inflammasome Adaptor Protein ASC in Plasma as a Biomarker of Early Cognitive Changes. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(14), 7758.
Extracellular vesicle ASC: a novel mediator for lung-brain axis in preterm brain injury. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2024 Jul 3.
Increased inflammasome protein expression identified in microglia from postmortem brains with schizophrenia.J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2024 Jun 21.
IC100, a humanized therapeutic monoclonal anti-ASC antibody alleviates oxygen-induced retinopathy in mice.Angiogenesis. 2024 May 6.
Extracellular Vesicles Mediate Inflammasome Signaling in the Brain and Heart of Alzheimer’s Disease Mice. Front Mol Neurosci. 2024 Apr 10;17:1369781.
Association of region-specific hippocampal reduction of neurogranin with inflammasome proteins in post-mortem brains of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 22 January 2024.