New Research to start determining if periodontal disease causes atherosclerosis
This entry was posted on 8/27/2007 9:59 AM and is filed under Research.
Roberta A. Gottlieb, M.D. (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ,1984) Dr. Gottlieb is the director of the SDSU BioScience Center, which is focused on the role of infection and inflammation in cardiovascular disease. Her research interest is in the cell biology of the cardiomyocyte after ischemia/reperfusion injury. She studies programmed cell death, mitochondrial dysfunction, and autophagy in the heart, using cell culture and animal models of heart disease. As director of the BioScience Center, she is initiating new programs including a study directed at determining if periodontal disease causes atherosclerosis.
