Emeritus Staff
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
United States of America
Martha's focus of our research is on defining the mechanisms responsible for LDL and lipid oxidation during the activation of human monocytes (HM) and to study the role of lipids in regulating HM activation and migration into sites of inflammation.
Inflammation; atherosclerosis; glioblastoma; innate immunity; human monocyte/macrophages; lipoxygenase; chemotaxis; superoxide anion; signal transduction; gene expression