Markus Mapara

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh

EDUCATION:
Dr Mapara graduated from the University of Heidelberg Medical School, and received his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at the Universities of Heidelberg and the University Medical Center Charitè of the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. In addition, he completed a research fellowship at the Transplantation Biology Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in Boston.

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
He is a member of numerous medical societies. His research was recognized with the first German Chugai Science Award in Stem Cell Transplantation.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Mapara’s lab is interested in studying the mechanisms underlying graft versus malignancy (GVM) reactions. Another focus of Dr Mapara’s work is to inhibit on a molecular level the conditioning therapy-induced inflammatory reaction, which is critical for the development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

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