Prof. Christopher Glass University of California, San Diego, USA

Christopher K. Glass is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He has had a long-standing interest in understanding how sequence specific transcription factors, co-activators and co-repressors regulate the development and function of macrophages. Recent work from... read morehis laboratory has focused on using molecular, cellular and genome-wide approaches to understand how nuclear receptors negatively regulate signaling pathways that mediate innate and adaptive immune responses and underlie the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases that include atherosclerosis and diabetes.