Affiliate Professor, Institute for Behavioral Medication Analysis
Affiliate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Co-Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program
School of Medication
Institute for Behavioral Medication Analysis
Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Well being
460 Medical Heart Dr.
Columbus, OH 43210
614-293-3496
leah.pyter@osumc.edu
Analysis Lab Targets
To enhance the psychological and bodily well being of most cancers sufferers and most cancers survivors. To understanding the essential mechanisms underlying disease-induced modifications in inflammatory processes within the mind and periphery. Particularly, I exploit rodent fashions of most cancers to review the immune-mediated results of most cancers on habits and tissue restore.
Analysis and Medical Pursuits
- Most cancers behavioral comorbidities
- Rhythms
- Endocrinology
- Microbiome
Analysis Strategies
- Small animal surgical procedure
- Protein and mRNA quantification
- Immunohistochemistry
- Behavioral checks
Present Analysis Initiatives
Most cancers, Neuroinflammation and Habits
Despair and cognitive impairments are extra prevalent in most cancers sufferers than the final inhabitants. That is doubtless on account of a mix of the illness course of, most cancers therapies, and the stress of coping with a life-threatening illness. This undertaking focuses on the neuroinflammatory mechanisms by which peripheral tumors alter mind perform (depressive-like and cognitive behaviors) in a mouse mannequin of breast most cancers.
Most cancers and Wound Therapeutic
All most cancers sufferers require tissue restore as a part of their therapy course of (e.g., surgical procedure, chemotherapy, radiation). Nonetheless, most cancers sufferers are usually immunocompromised. For this aspect of our analysis, we’re analyzing how oral most cancers influences treatment-relevant inflammatory processes (e.g., wound therapeutic) within the pores and skin and muscosa of a mouse mannequin.
Schooling and Coaching
MS: Biology College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD: Neuroscience The Ohio State College
Visiting Analysis Assistant Professor: Heart for Wound Therapeutic and Tissue Regeneration, College of Illinois at Chicago, labored with Drs. Phillip Marucha, Christopher Engeland and Luisa DiPietro
Fellowship: Institute for Thoughts and Biology, Division of Psychology, College of Chicago, labored with Drs. Brian Prendergast and Martha McClintock
Skilled Memberships
- Psychoneuroimmunology Analysis Society
- Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
- American Psychosomatic Society
- Society for Neuroscience
- Ohio State Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Group
- OSU Most cancers Complete Most cancers Heart – Most cancers Management Program
Honors and Information
- Early Profession Reviewer on the Heart for Scientific Assessment, NIH, 2015
- American Psychosomatic Society Younger Investigator Colloquium Scholar ($500), 2014
- American Psychosomatic Society Younger Investigator Colloquium Honorable Point out, 2013
- College of Illinois at Chicago Constructing Interdisciplinary Analysis Careers in Girls’s Well being (BIRCWH) Affiliate Consultant, 2012