Jennifer Loftis
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Biography
Jennifer Loftis earned a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and completed a Postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at OHSU. In 2008, she was awarded a career development award from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to study inflammatory mediators in depression and hepatitis C viral infection (HCV). As a VA career development award recipient she identified a novel role for cytokines in the etiology of depressive symptoms in adults with chronic HCV. This finding has guided the testing of hypotheses regarding how circulating inflammatory factors affect central nervous system functioning and how immunotherapeutic strategies may help to treat these conditions. She is currently a Research Scientist at the VA Portland Health Care System and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at OHSU, with over 50 publications in the fields of psychiatry, neuroscience, and immunology. To support her translational research program and investigation of the psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms contributing to substance abuse and neuropsychiatric impairments, she has received grants from local and national organizations such as the Northwest Health Foundation, VHA, and the National Institutes of Health.
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Abstract : An “immunomodulatory†approach for the treatment of methamphetamine addiction
