Wendy Fonseca Aguilar, PhD
She/Her
Research Assistant Professor
Medicine
My research aimed to understand the mechanism that predisposed asthma after early-life RSV infection, focusing on transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms.
Projects:
Mechanisms of Asthma and Implications for Its Prevention and Treatment
Research Area(s)
Infectious Diseases | Pulmonary Diseases
Publications
- Sex-associated TSLP-induced immune alterations following early-life RSV infection leads to enhanced allergic disease
- TLR Activation and Allergic Disease: Early Life Microbiome and Treatment
- Factors affecting the immunity to respiratory syncytial virus: From epigenetics to microbiome
Grants
- Principal investigator of: Long-term alteration of the airway epithelium after early life RSV infection
- Principal investigator of: Long-term alteration of the airway epithelium after early life RSV infection
- Principal investigator of: Long-term alteration of airway epithelial cells after early life RSV infection