Ana Mora

About

Biography

I received my MD from Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medical School in Bogota, Colombia. After Research Trainee and Research Associate in Immunology in Colombia, I had my postdoctoral training as a Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University. I moved to Emory University in 2002 as faculty in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine of the Emory University Department of Medicine, and in 2010 I joined the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2018 to 2021, I was faculty member of the Aging Institute of the University of Pittsburgh as Director of Education. Since February 2021, join the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Ohio State University as Associate Director of Lung Research.

My research is focused in the elucidation of the pathogenic mechanisms involved in the disrepair and fibrosis in the lung and importantly, how aging-related cell perturbations contribute to this pathogenic process. My pioneered aging studies showed that vulnerability and persistence of ER stress responses are key components of the age-related susceptibility to injury and lung fibrosis; and elucidated the novel concept that alterations in mitochondrial homeostasis have a key role in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis pathogenesis and a therapeutic target to halt the progression of the disease. My work has been published in more than 96 peer review publications, several book chapters and editorial comments.

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Research