Job title:
Merinoff Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, The Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research & Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Northwell Health, New York.
Organization: Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research & Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 350 Community Dr, Manhasset, NY 11030
Country: USA
Brief Bio:
Lopa Mishra is currently a Professor of Medicine and Merinoff Endowed Chair, Co-Director for The Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Prior to this she served as Director Center for Translational Medicine, GW (2016-2021), and Chair of Gastroenterology at MD Anderson Cancer Center UT (2008-16), Vice Chair Surgery Georgetown University (2003-8). Current discoveries in Dr. Mishra’s laboratory have led to exciting new findings: Animal models with disruption of TGF-βdevelop fatty liver and cancers spontaneously on a regular diet reflective of current trends in cancer in the human population and it led to a patent. In addition, Animal models with disruption of TGF-βhave an altered microbiome. Mishra discovered that the TGF-β pathway is the effector pathway for the human stem cell syndrome with an 800-fold risk of cancer (Beck-Wiedmann Syndrome). Her research has led to more than 374 peer review articles in Science 2003, 2005, PNAS, 2008, JCI, 2013, 2016, Hepatology 2017, Gastroenterology 2018, Cell 2018, Cancer Cell 2018, Cancer Research 2020, Gastroenterology, 2018, 2020, 2021, Science Trans Medicine 2021, Cell Reports 2024. Dr. Mishra has received many honors including American Gastroenterological Association Award for Top Women in Gastroenterology (2008); In 2016, she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2017, she was elected to the governing board of the American Association of Liver Diseases. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and in 2020 she received the American Association for Cancer Research Team Science Award (AACR).