Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Joint Appointments
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
Director General Clinical Research Center

Research Interest:
Stress and The Endocrine Immune Interface Psychoneuroimmunlogy

Selected Publications:
Malarkey WB, Wang J, Cheney C, Glaser R, Nagaraja H.  2002.  Human Lymphocyte growth hormone stimulates interferon gamma production and is inhibited by cortisol and norpinephrine.  J Neuroimmunol. 123:180-187

Kiecolt-Glaser JK, Preacher K, MacCallum R, Atkinson C, Malarkey WB, Glaser R.  2003.  Chronic stress and age-related increases in the proinflammatory cytokine IL-6            Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 9090-9095.

Glaser R, Robles T,  Sheridan J, Malarkey WB, Kiecolt-Glaser JK.  2003.  Mild-depressive symptoms are associated with amplified and prolonged inflammatory responses following influenza vaccination in older adults.  Arch Gen Psychiatry 60: 1009-1014

Dugan A, Malarkey WB, Schwemberger S, Jauch E, Ogle C, Horseman N.  2004.  Serum levels of prolactin, growth hormone, and cortisol in burn patients:  Correlations with severity of burn, serum cytokine levels, and fatality.  J of Burn Care & Rehabilitation 25: 306-313

Malarkey WB.   2005.  Stress, genes, chronic inflammation and the diseases of aging.  In: Stress, Behaviour, and  Immune Response 9-19 Pabst Science Publishers

Roy S, Khanna S, Yeh P, Rink C, Malarkey WB, Kiecolt-Glaser J, Laskowski B, Glaser R, Sen C.  2005.  Wound site neutrophil transcriptome in response to psychological stress in young men.     Gene Expression (in press) 2005