Michelle Galeas-Pena, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Phone
504-988-1350
School of Medicine
Department
Medicine Gastroenterology
Michelle Galeas-Pena, MD, PhD

Education & Affiliations

MD – Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo School of Medidine – 2005
Master of Science in Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry – Southern Illinois University at Carbondale – 2009
PhD in Biomedical Sciences – Tulane University – 2021

Publications

  1. Galeas-Pena, M., Morici, L.A. (2023). Vaccine Development Against Melioidosis. In:Christodoulides, M. (eds) Vaccines for Neglected Pathogens: Strategies, Achievements and Challenges . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24355-4_15

     

  2. Gellings P, Galeas-Pena M, Morici LA. Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin- derived extracellular vesicles as an alternative to live BCG immunotherapy. Clin Exp Med. 2022 Jan 25. doi: 10.1007/s10238-022-00794-4

     

  3. Galeas-Pena M, McLaughlin N, Pociask D. The role of the innate immune system on pulmonary infections. Biol Chem. 2019;400(4):443–456. doi:10.1515/hsz-2018-0304

     

  4. Hebert KD, Mclaughlin N, Galeas-Pena M, et al. Targeting the IL-22/IL-22BP axis enhances tight junctions and reduces inflammation during influenza infection. Mucosal Immunol. 2020;13(1):64–74. doi:10.1038/s41385-019-0206-9

     

  5. Reverte V, Gogulamudi VR, Rosales CB, Musial DC, Gonsales SR, Vitela AJ, Galeas- Pena M et al. Urinary angiotensinogen increases in the absence of overt renal injury in high fat diet-induced type 2 diabetic mice. J Diabetes Complications. 2020;34(2):107448. doi:10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2019.107448

     

  6. Bruna Visniauskas, Virginia Reverte Ribó, Caleb Abshire, Benard Ogola, Carla Rosales, Michelle Galeas-Pena, Venkata Sure, Siva Sakamuri, Nicholas Harris, Isabella Kilanowski-Doroh, Alexandra McNally, Alec Horton, Margaret Zimmerman, Prasad Katakam, Sarah Lindsey, and Minolfa PrietoHigh plasma soluble prorenin receptor (sPRR) is associated with vascular damage in male but not female mice fed a high fat diet". Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Mar 17. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00638.2022. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36930656.