Biography
Hikmet Jamil has received his Medical degree from Baghdad University, MSc from London University and his PhD from Manchester University. He specializes in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He has joined Michigan State University in 2015 after he left Wayne State University as an “Emeritus Professorâ€. He has published 20 books and 191 fi eld research articles. He has served as an international Visiting Lecturer and is one of the Founders of International Society of Iraqi Scientists and was elected in 2002 as its President until 2015. He has received several awards from academic institutions, non-profit organizations, the WHO and Governmental agencies.
Research Interest
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Anil Mishra
Director of Tulane Eosinophilic Disorder Center
Tulane University School of Medicine
USA
Biography
Dr. Anil Mishra, PhD is Edward G. Schlieder Educational Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine. He is also the Director of Tulane Eosinophilic Disorder Center in the Section of Pulmonary Diseases at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Mishra's research established that eosinophils are the resident cells of the gastrointestinal tract that home prenatally (Mishra et al., J. Clin. Invest. 1999). He showed that eosinophil active chemokine eotaxin-1 constitutively expressed and has significant role for eosinophils homing into the gastrointestinal tract. He developed the first murine model of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) (Mishra et al., J. Clin. Invest. 2001). His findings implicated aeroallergen in the etiology of EoE and suggested that esophageal eosinophilic inflammation is mechanistically associated with pulmonary inflammation (J. Immunology 2002, and Gastroenterology, 2003). Most recently he reported that rIL-15 is a therapeutic molecule for the allergen-induced airway hyperactivity and fibrosis for chronic asthma and other pulmonary functional impairment. Dr. Mishra is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma Immunology (FAAAAI) and the American Gastrointestinal Association (FAGA). He has published over 72 articles, book chapters and reviews on molecular mechanisms of pulmonary and gastrointestinal allergic responses in high impact factor journals. Dr. Mishra’ research is supported by The National Institutes of Health via NIDDK and NIAID institutes. Dr Mishra is also a member of several NIH study sections and serving Editor and Editorial Board member in a number of international journals.
Research Interest
Medicine, Pulmonology
Biography
Michael Roth is currently working as the Head of Pulmonary Cell Research, Pneumology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He has completed his PhD from University of Basel. He has worked as a Visiting Professor and Associate Professor for University of Sydney for 2 years. He has published 148 articles in reputed journals.
Research Interest
Pulmonary Cell Research, Pneumology
