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Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Salary: $73,588

Department: Cardiovascular Research Institute

Physical work location:

1470 Madison Ave.

Hess CSM 7 th Floor, Room 202

New York, NY, 10024

Name PI or Supervisor: Filip Swirski, filip.swirski@mssm.edu , 212-824-8901

Web link to Lab: https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/swirskilab/

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/cardiovascular

Administrative Contact: Christopher Chan, Christopher.chan@mssm.edu , 212-824-9897

Qualifications

Technical Duties:

Wet laboratory duties include: Animal handling, microbiology, cell biology, molecular biology, animal microsurgery, imaging. Dry laboratory tasks include: bioinformatics, data analysis, manuscript preparation, project presentation (talks/posters).

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD, MD, or PhD/MD

Experience Required: N/A

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: This project will explore which and how specific neurons in the brain

control atherosclerosis-regulated hematopoiesis and demonstrate the impact of manipulation of these brain regions on the development of atherosclerosis. This project could lead to the discovery of conceptually new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of atherosclerosis.

, J16 - Cardiovascular Research Institute - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

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Responsibilities

Title: Central nervous system control of hematopoesis in atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis and acute myocardial infarction (MI) as its major life-threatening complication are major causes of overall morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease developing in response to intimal lipid deposition, involving and mediated by pro-inflammatory processes driven by vascular recruitment of various immune cells. Leukocytes both contribute to all stages of atherosclerosis and to tissue healing and remodeling following MI. Recent studies demonstrated that atherosclerosis and MI influence myelopoiesis in the bone marrow, resulting in monocytosis and neutrophilia and subsequently increased recruitment of these cells to the growing lesion and to the infarcted myocardium. Importantly, specific regions in the brain such as the corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) producing neurons in periventricular hypothalamus (PVH) control peripheral immune cell numbers and function and can induce large scale leukocyte shifts and functional alterations in the blood. In addition, manipulating stress centers in the brain during myocardial infarction dampens inflammation and improves healing. Collectively, these data suggest that the brain may regulate the interplay between hematopoesis and atherosclerosis, however the underlying mechanisms remain literally unexplored. We hypothesize that increased hematopoiesis during atherosclerosis is controlled by specific regions and activity patterns in the central nervous system. We aim to (1) identify regional and cellular brain activity patterns in mice with atherosclerosis, and (2) target these brain regions in mice with and without atherosclerosis.

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