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ED PEARCE, PH.D.
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Ed studied for his Ph.D. in the Division of Parasitology at the National Institute of Medical Research in London and received his degree from Brunel University. He was a post-doctoral fellow with Alan Sher at the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
Ed established his independent research program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University in 1991, moved his laboratory to the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and then joined the Trudeau Institute in 2009.
His laboratory studies the immunology of schistosomiasis, and the biology of the parasitic helminths that cause this neglected tropical disease, and also the regulation of dendritic cell activation during infection.
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1. Immune responses during chronic helminth infections
2. Dendritic cell biology
3. The molecular cell biology of schistosomes
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