Christine Hsieh, PhD, BS

Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology
Research Biologist, Director of VA FACS Core Facility
Principal Investigator
M_MED-VAMC-RHEU

Christine Hsieh graduated with a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA.  She received her Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford University where she studied NK cells in liver transplantation with Dr. Sheri M. Krams.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF where she studied microglia and macrophages during neurodegeneration with Dr. William E. Seaman.  She researches molecular and cellular immunology in traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, tissue injury, and most recently COVID-19.

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