Faculty News & Information
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Our most recent addition to share our news, and tell the stories the public should know more about, is our website we call The Nexus. Nexus is a connection or series of connections linking two or more things, bringing ideas to life. It also describes our collaborative, real-world approach to learning at Jefferson. So it makes perfect sense that The Nexus website is home to the great stories about faculty and students that make Jefferson unique in higher ed. Visit the site often. Content is refreshed every week.
Faculty News
A new study led by Thomas Jefferson University researchers has revealed insights into how the eye handles inflammation, particularly in autoimmune uveitis, an inflammatory disease that bypasses the eye’s immune privilege and can damage healthy eye tissue.
In their recent study, Danielle M. Tholey, MD and her team at Thomas Jefferson University wanted to identify why men seem to be receiving more liver transplants than women. They looked at race, sex, insurance and education of patients receiving liver transplants. They then grouped the patients by whether they received a liver transplant from a deceased donor or a living donor.
Silva Markovic-Plese, MD, PhD and her team at Thomas Jefferson University have been studying RRMS for more than a decade. In a previous study, they noticed elevated levels of an immune chemical called, IL-11, in the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord of RRMS patients. They wanted to explore why.