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Heather Grifka
e-mail address: hgrifka@umich.edu

Mentor: Benjamin Segal, MD


Research Description
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Examining the signaling molecules that cause T cell encepahlogenicity in experimental autoimmune encephalitis. Research focuses on the transcription factor T-bet and myeloid growth factor M-CSF and their role in EAE.


Publications
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Abstracts
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Lee AW, Grifka H, Yu S. (2008) Gab2 Is a Key Determinant
of Mononuclear Phagocyte Development and a Regulator of Macrophage
Recruitment in Acute Inflammation. BLOOD. 50th Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Hematology

Lee AW, States DJ, Grifka H. (2007) Essential role of GAB2 in CSF-1
dependent macrophage development in the bone marrow. BLOOD. 49th
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.


Awards
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Rackham Merit Fellowship

 




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