Babbette LaMarca, Ph.D.
Professor, Thesis Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program, Departments of Pharmacology, Physiology and ObGyn; Clinical Mentor, Center for Excellence in Perinatal Research
University of Mississippi Medical Center
“Inflammation, autoantibodies and oxidative stress; mediators of hypertension in response to placental ischemia”
Dr. Babbette LaMarca is a Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and OB/GYN and the Thesis Director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship program. Her translational research program investigates the role of inflammation in causing increased blood pressure and reduced fetal weight in women with preeclampsia, new onset hypertension during pregnancy. Dr LaMarca investigates a role for activated immune cells to lead to chronic production of autoantibodies and oxidative stress as mediators of hypertension in preeclamptic patients as well as rodent models of preeclampsia.
Friday, October 25, 2019, 11:00AM-12:00PM, LIB-110
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, Texas