Christine Hsieh, PhD, BS

Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
VA Research Biologist, Director of FACS & Molecular Core Facilities
M_MED-VAMC-RHEU

Christine L. Hsieh earned a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford, studying NK cells with Sheri Krams.  Dr. Hsieh completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF as an NIH NRSA award recipient with Bill Seaman, investigating TREM2 in microglia. She was a VA BLR&D Career Development Awardee for her studies on macrophages in traumatic brain injury. Dr. Hsieh investigates immunological mechanisms underlying neurological dysfunction.

Publications

ADAM17 Is The Main Sheddase For The Generation Of Human Triggering Receptor Expressed In Myeloid Cells (hTREM2) Ectodomain And Cleaves TREM2 After Histidine 157.

bioRxiv

Dominik Feuerbach, Patrick Schindler, Carmen Barske, Stefanie Joller, Edwige Beng-Louka, Katie A. Worringer, Sravya Kommineni, Ajamete Kaykas, Daniel J. Ho, Chaoyang Ye, Karl Welzenbach, Gaelle Elain, Laurent Klein, Irena Brzak, Anis K. Mir, Christopher J. Faraday, Reiner Aichholz, Simone Popp, Nathalie George, Christine L. Hsieh, Mary C. Nakamura, Ulf Neumann