Immunity and Inflammation in Health and Disease: Emerging Roles of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Immune Support - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Shampa Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicinein Philadelphia. Trained in India, Germany and the US, her current research is on inflammation-immune signaling with a focus on the vascular system. Her lab studies the role of redox signals in the onset and amplification of inflammation and immune responses. Toward this, recent work from her group showed that the systemic cytokine storm associated with COVID-19 activates an inflammation cascade in the vascular system that can potentially lead to vascular dysfunction. Research in her lab is funded by extramural research funding from the NIH and corporate sources. Dr. Chatterjee serves on the Editorial Board of several journals in the field of pulmonary physiology. She has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and edited two books on Endothelial Signaling, and on Inflammation and Immune responses. Dr. Chatterjee has received numerous awards such as the Caroline Tum Suden young Investigator Award, and the Hermann Rahn award for Excellence if Pulmonary Physiology. The topics addressed in this book are central to her research where she tries unraveling the balance between the onset of inflammation in host protection and resolution of inflammation in host injury.

Wolfgang Jungraithmayr MD, PhD is a transplant surgeon and immunologist with a research interest in the field of transplant and tumor immunology. His lab has unraveled some of the signaling events that follow the transplant procedure and that lead to allograft rejection post lung transplant. He is professor of thoracic surgery at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the Medical University Brandenburg, Germany. Wolfgang Jungraithmayr published more than 70 original articles and received several awards, among them the Grillo Award of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Debasis Bagchi earned his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982 and is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. He also serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Cepham Research Center and holds adjunct faculty appointments. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Research & Development at InterHealth Nutraceuticals (1998–2011) and later Director of Innovation and Clinical Affairs at Iovate Health Sciences (2011–2013).

Dr. Bagchi received the Master of the American College of Nutrition Award in 2010 and has held leadership roles including Past President of the American College of Nutrition and Past Chairman of the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He contributes as an NIH peer reviewer and advisor to international health organizations.

A prolific scholar, he has authored over 320 peer-reviewed papers, 30 books, and holds 18 patents. He also serves on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.