Neurorehabilitation

Biography

Herbert B. Tanowitz completed his graduation in 1967 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Later he completed his internship in Bellevue Hospital Center and his fellowship in Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His professional interest are laboratory investigates the pathogenesis of chagasic heart disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Chagas’ disease is also an opportunistic infection in HIV/AIDS. We are examining signaling pathways involved in cardiac remodeling as a consequence of the T. cruzi infection. This laboratory is examining the consequences of this infection on cell cycle regulatory proteins (i.e., cyclins) in vitro

Research Interest

Parasitology Chagas disease Cerebral malaria Relationship between obesity and infectious diseases has become an important issue. The adipocyte-derived factor adiponectin has been widely implicated in the pathogenesis of heart disease