Charles J Malemud
Professor / Editor-in-Chief, JCCI
Case Western Reserve University
USA
Biography
Charles J. Malemud received the Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1973 and completed postdoctoral studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. Since 1977, Dr. Malemud has been a member of the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he is presently Professor of Medicine & Anatomy in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases and Senior Investigator of the Arthritis Research Group. He has published over 230 papers, chapters and reviews primarily in the field of chondrocyte biology. Professor Malemud is on the editorial board of several rheumatology, immunology and musculoskeletal journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology and Global Vaccines and Immunology.
Research Interest
JAK-STAT, and MAPK signal transduction pathways in human chondrocyte gene expression relevant to Rheumatoid arthritis and Osteoarthritis, Inflammation, Pro-inflammatory, Anti-Inflammatory, Matrix Metalloproteinase Gene Expression and Apoptosis