Laura
E. Nagy, PhD
Professor with Secondary Appointment
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office:
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Staff - Departments of Gastroenterology and Pathology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Lerner Research Institute
Departments of Gastroenterology and Pathobiology
phone: (216) 444-4021
fax: (216) 636-1493
email: nagyl3@ccf.org
mailing address:
Laura E. Nagy, PhD
Cleveland
Clinic Foundation
Pathobiolgy / NE40
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland
OH 44195
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BACKGROUND
Laura
E. Nagy received both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nutrition from the
University of California at Berkeley. She then held a postdoctoral
position in the Department of Neurology at the University of California
San Francisco from 1986-1990, before being hired as a Professor
at the University of Guelph (Canada). In 1996, she returned to
UC San Francisco where she spent a year as a Visiting Professor
in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Most recently
(Fall 1997), Dr. Nagy joined the Department of Nutrition at CWRU
as an Associate Professor. Dr. Nagy was named Young Investigator
of the Year by the Research Society on Alcoholism (1993) and a
Future Leader in Nutrition for Life Sciences International (1993).
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Laura
E. Nagy research is aimed at understanding how
alcohol consumption contributes to chronic diseases,
including liver disease and diabetes. Specific projects include
(1) Studying the effects of ethanol on the innate
immune system; (2) Understanding how ethanol disrupts
signal transduction via the toll-like receptors,
leading to disruption and; (3) Inverstigating how
ethanol causes insulin resistance in adipose tissue,
leading to impaired GLUT4 vesicle trafficking and
glucose transport as well as abnormal regulation
of triglyceride homestasis.
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