Olimpia Meucci
Professor
Pharmacology & Physiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
United States of America
Biography
As a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine, Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD, actively contributes to the educational mission of the College's graduate and medical schools. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of her work, students from different graduate programs usually train in her laboratory, and she holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. In addition to her involvement in various institutional and extramural committees, Dr. Meucci is one of the co-directors of the Temple/Drexel/UPenn training grant “Interdisciplinary and Translational Research Training in NeuroAIDS†(NIH-MH079785), and director of the Center of Neuroimmunology and CNS Therapeutics, which is part of the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases (IMMID).
Research Interest
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and drug abuse, chemokine-based therapeutics, neuroprotective pathways in neuroinflammation
Publications
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Festa L, Meucci O. Effects of opiates and HIV proteins on neurons: the role of ferritin heavy chain and a potential for synergism. Current HIV research. 2012 Jul 1;10(5):453-62.
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Pitcher J, Wurth R, Shimizu S, Meucci O. Multispectral imaging and automated laser capture microdissection of human cortical neurons: a quantitative study of CXCR4 expression. Chemokines: Methods and Protocols. 2013:31-48.
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Pitcher J, Abt A, Myers J, Han R, Snyder M, Graziano A, Festa L, Kutzler M, Garcia F, Gao WJ, Fischer-Smith T. Neuronal ferritin heavy chain and drug abuse affect HIV-associated cognitive dysfunction. The Journal of clinical investigation. 2014 Feb 3;124(2):656.
