Sylvia M. Kiertscher, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Address:
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
37-131 Center for Health Sciences
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1690

Phone:
Telephone: 310-206-8318
Lab: 310-825-9393
FAX: 310-267-2020

Email:

skiertscher@mednet.ucla.edu

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Education and Training:

Education:
Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL

Research Fellowships:
Surgical Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care, UCLA School of Medicine


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Areas of Interest

  • Dendritic Cells
  • Tumor Immunology
  • Immunotherapeutic Approaches to Cancer Treatment
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Representative Publications:

Kiertscher SM, Luo J, Dubinett SM, Roth MD. Tumors promote altered maturation and early apoptosis of monocyte-derived dendritic cells. J. Immunol. 2000; 164(3):1269-1276.

Roth MD, Gitlitz BL, Kiertscher SM, Park AN, Mendenhall M, Moldawer N, Figlin RA. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-4 enhance the number and antigen-presenting cell activity of circulating CD14+ and CD83+ cells in cancer patients. Cancer Res. 2000; 60(7):1934-1941.

Thoma-Uszynski S, Kiertscher SM, Ochoa MT, Bouis DA, Norgard MV, Miyake K, Godowski PJ, Roth MD, Modlin RL. Activation of Toll-like receptor 2 on human dendritic cells triggers induction of IL-12, but not IL-10. J. Immunol. 2000; 165(7):3804-3810.

Roth MD, Cheng Q, Harui A, Basak S, Mitani K, Low TA, Kiertscher SM. Helper-dependent adenoviral vectors efficiently express transgenes in human DC, but still stimulate antiviral immune responses. J. Immunol. 2002; 169(8):4651-4656.

Kiertscher SM, Gitlitz BJ, Figlin RA, Roth MD. GM-CSF and IL-4 expand and activate Type-1 dendritic cells (DC1) when administered in vivo to cancer patients. Int. J. Cancer 2003; 107(2):256-261.

Liau LM, Prins RM, Kiertscher SM, Odesa SK, Kremen TJ, Giovannone AJ, Lin J-W, Chute DJ, Mischel PS, Cloughsey TF, Roth MD. Dendritic cell vaccination in Glioblastoma patients induces differential systemic and intracranial T cell responses mediated by CNS tumor microenvironment. Clin. Cancer Res. 2005; 11(15):5515-5525.

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