Alper Laboratory

Scott Alper, PhDDiseases of the immune system such as sepsis, asthma, and atherosclerosis affect millions of people worldwide, and the incidence of many of these diseases is rising. Dr. Alper's Lab is focused on understanding the regulation of the innate immune response, particularly as it relates to the basis for such immunological diseases. He is using a comparative genomics approach in the nematode C. elegans and mammalian cell culture to identify novel regulators of the innate immune response.

The Alper lab is supported by grants from the American Lung Association and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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National Jewish Health

 

University of Colorado Denver

 

Publications

  • Yang, IV, Alper, S, Lackford, B, Rutledge, H, Burch, LH, and Schwartz, DA. Identification of Hedgehog signaling and the E2f1 transcription factor as novel regulators of the systemic response to LPS. Submitted (2010).
  • Alper, S. Model Systems to the Rescue: the relationship between aging and innate immunity. Comm. & Integr. Biol. 5(3): in press (2010).

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Contact Information

Dr. Scott Alper
alpers@njhealth.org
Office: 303-270-2659
Lab: 303-270-2698

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