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Geert Schmid-Schoenbein, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering
Hematologic Malignancies Program
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Auto-digestion as Inflammatory Mechanism, Inflammation, Inflammatory Processes that Lead to Malignant Transformation In Vivo, Microcirculation, Mechanotransduction

Specifically we explore trigger mechanisms for inflammation due to:

- auto-digestion by pancreatic digestive enzymes in-vivo activators and cytotoxic mediators

- molecular mechanisms for cell and organ dysfunction involving proteolytic enzymes

- blockade of digestive enzymes as mechanism to attenuate inflammation and organ injury

- mechanisms that control mechanotransduction by fluid shear stress in circulating leukocytes

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