Mihaela Gadjeva

Mihaela Gadjeva

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Affiliated withHarvard Medical School

Research Area

Biography

Dr. Gadjeva is an internationally recognized immunologist with research interests in host-bacterial pathogenesis. She has an undergraduate and graduate degrees in Biochemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria, and Oxford University, UK, and a postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. She rose through the ranks of Instructor, Assistant and Associate Professor at BWH/HMS. Currently, Dr. Gadjeva’s laboratory is at BWH/HMS and hosts graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to explore how commensals induce signals at mucosal surfaces to control innate immunity to pathogens. The objective is to leverage this knowledge to discover novel therapeutic approaches to strengthen immunity during bacterial infections. Dr. Gadjeva has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts of and review articles. She has received continuous peer-reviewed, NIH grant support from for the past 11 years and recently received an HMS Innovation Grant in the Basic and Social Sciences. Dr. Gadjeva’s contributions have been recognized by a First Place ARVO-AFER Merck Innovative Ophthalmology Award. Dr. Gadjeva is serving as a member of NIH and DOD study sections, a reviewer for leading journals in the field, and an adviser to the Biotechnology Graduate degree program at Harvard University.

JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 1
Year
Conjunctival Commensal Isolation and Identification in Mice
Publication title
2021

Other Publications

Article
Year
Label-free electrical sensing of bacteria in eye wash samples: A step towards point-of-care detection of pathogens in patients with infectious keratitis.

Biosensors & bioelectronics| PubMed ID: 27987408

2017
Myeloid C3 determines induction of humoral responses to peripheral herpes simplex virus infection.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)| PubMed ID: 14607939

2003
A role for NF-kappa B subunits p50 and p65 in the inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-induced shock.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)| PubMed ID: 15494531

2004
2008
2008
2009
2009
2010
Caveolin-1 modifies the immunity to Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)| PubMed ID: 19949109

2010
2010
2010
2011
2013
2013
The complement system. Overview.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)| PubMed ID: 24218246

2014
Opsonophagocytic assay.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)| PubMed ID: 24218277

2014
2014
2014
2014
2015
2015
TSP-1 Deficiency Alters Ocular Microbiota: Implications for Sjögren's Syndrome Pathogenesis.

Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics| PubMed ID: 26352162

2015
Impact of Microbiome on Ocular Health.

The ocular surface| PubMed ID: 27189865

2016
2016
2017
2017
Role of Microbiota in Strengthening Ocular Mucosal Barrier Function Through Secretory IgA.

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science| PubMed ID: 28892827

2017
2017
2019
MASTers of neutrophil homeostasis.

Journal of leukocyte biology| PubMed ID: 30794322

2019
2019
Microglia and Neutrophils to the Rescue.

Trends in immunology| PubMed ID: 31133466

2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2020
2020
2020