Miriam Merad, MD, PhD Email Miriam Merad
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- Positions
- PROFESSOR | Oncological Sciences
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
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- Language
- English
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Oncological Science and of Medicine (Hem/Onc division) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Dr. Merad was trained as an Oncologist in France and obtained her PhD in immunology at Stanford University and University of Paris VII. She was recruited to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2004 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure in 2007 and to Full Professor in 2010.
In 2010 Dr. Merad became the program leader of the Cancer immunology immunotherapy group at The Tisch Cancer Institute and the director of the Human Immunomonitoring center, which goal is to identify novel immune biomarkers of disease and response to therapy in patients with cancer and allergic disease Dr. Merad also serves as the Associate Director for the MD PhD program at Mount Sinai Medical School.
Dr. Merad’s laboratory studies the mechanisms that regulate the development and function of innate myeloid cells including dendritic cells and macrophages. One of the major goals of her laboratory is to identify the contribution of these cells to the development and progression of tumor cells. Dr. Merad’s hypothesis suggests that tumors do not consist of a homogenous mass of genetically altered cells but rather include a large amount of innate myeloid cells that significantly contribute to tumor development. Dr. Merad established that tumor infiltrating dendritic cells could be targeted in vivo to promote the induction of tumor specific immunity. Currently, she is examining the contribution of tumor infiltrating macrophages to tumor progression and response to conventional and targeted therapies.
In 2013, Dr. Merad was the primary organizer of the prestigious Keystone conference on dendritic cell biology and was elected to the “American Society of Clinical Investigation”. She has authored more than 100 primary papers and review articles in high profile journals and obtained extensive NIH funding for her studies on dendritic cells and macrophage biology in mice and humans.
Please visit Dr. Merad's Lab website: http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/labs/merad-laboratory
Research Topic
Cancer, Chemokines, Dendritic Cells, Immunological Tolerance, Immunology, Lymphocytes, Macrophage, Microglia, Stem Cells, T Cells, Transplantation
Multi-Disciplinary Training Area
Immunology [IMM]
Education
MD, University of Algiers
Residency, University Paris VII (Interne des hopitaux de Paris)
MS (DEA), University Paris VII
PhD, Stanford University and University Paris VII
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Language
English
2014
Endowed Professorship
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Upadhyay R, Hammerich L, Peng P, Brown B, Merad M, Brody JD. Lymphoma: immune evasion strategies. Cancers 2015; 7(2).
Hoeffel G, Chen J, Lavin Y, Low D, Almeida FF, See P, Beaudin AE, Lum J, Low I, Forsberg EC, Poidinger M, Zolezzi F, Larbi A, Ng LG, Chan JK, Greter M, Becher B, Samokhvalov IM, Merad M, Ginhoux F. C-myb(+) erythro-myeloid progenitor-derived fetal monocytes give rise to adult tissue-resident macrophages. Immunity 2015 Apr; 42(4).
Naik S, Bouladoux N, Linehan JL, Han SJ, Harrison OJ, Wilhelm C, Conlan S, Himmelfarb S, Byrd AL, Deming C, Quinones M, Brenchley JM, Kong HH, Tussiwand R, Murphy KM, Merad M, Segre JA, Belkaid Y. Commensal-dendritic-cell interaction specifies a unique protective skin immune signature. Nature 2015 Apr; 520(7545).
Berres ML, Merad M, Allen CE. Progress in understanding the pathogenesis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis: back to Histiocytosis X?. British journal of haematology 2015 Apr; 169(1).
Kim SJ, Goldstein J, Dorso K, Merad M, Mayer L, Crawford JM, Gregersen PK, Diamond B. Expression of blimp-1 in dendritic cells modulates the innate inflammatory response in dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis. Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2015; 20(1).
Paschall AV, Zhang R, Qi CF, Bardhan K, Peng L, Lu G, Yang J, Merad M, McGaha T, Zhou G, Mellor A, Abrams SI, Morse HC, Ozato K, Xiong H, Liu K. IFN regulatory factor 8 represses GM-CSF expression in T cells to affect myeloid cell lineage differentiation. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2015 Mar; 194(5).
Remark R, Becker C, Gomez JE, Damotte D, Dieu-Nosjean MC, Sautès-Fridman C, Fridman WH, Powell CA, Altorki NK, Merad M, Gnjatic S. The non-small cell lung cancer immune contexture. A major determinant of tumor characteristics and patient outcome. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2015 Feb; 191(4).
Berres ML, Lim KP, Peters T, Price J, Takizawa H, Salmon H, Idoyaga J, Ruzo A, Lupo PJ, Hicks MJ, Shih A, Simko SJ, Abhyankar H, Chakraborty R, Leboeuf M, Beltrão M, Lira SA, Heym KM, Clausen BE, Bigley V, Collin M, Manz MG, McClain K, Merad M, Allen CE. BRAF-V600E expression in precursor versus differentiated dendritic cells defines clinically distinct LCH risk groups. The Journal of experimental medicine 2015 Feb; 212(2).
Zitvogel L, Galluzzi L, Viaud S, Vétizou M, Daillère R, Merad M, Kroemer G. Cancer and the gut microbiota: an unexpected link. Science translational medicine 2015 Jan; 7(271).
Godefroy E, Gallois A, Idoyaga J, Merad M, Tung N, Monu N, Saenger Y, Fu Y, Ravindran R, Pulendran B, Jotereau F, Trombetta S, Bhardwaj N. Activation of toll-like receptor-2 by endogenous matrix metalloproteinase-2 modulates dendritic-cell-mediated inflammatory responses. Cell reports 2014 Dec; 9(5).
Lavin Y, Winter D, Blecher-Gonen R, David E, Keren-Shaul H, Merad M, Jung S, Amit I. Tissue-resident macrophage enhancer landscapes are shaped by the local microenvironment. Cell 2014 Dec; 159(6).
Mayer CT, Ghorbani P, Nandan A, Dudek M, Arnold-Schrauf C, Hesse C, Berod L, Stüve P, Puttur F, Merad M, Sparwasser T. Selective and efficient generation of functional Batf3-dependent CD103+ dendritic cells from mouse bone marrow. Blood 2014 Nov; 124(20).
Hodes GE, Pfau ML, Leboeuf M, Golden SA, Christoffel DJ, Bregman D, Rebusi N, Heshmati M, Aleyasin H, Warren BL, Lebonté B, Horn S, Lapidus KA, Stelzhammer V, Wong EH, Bahn S, Krishnan V, Bolaños-Guzman CA, Murrough JW, Merad M, Russo SJ. Individual differences in the peripheral immune system promote resilience versus susceptibility to social stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014 Nov; 111(45).
Yu CI, Becker C, Metang P, Marches F, Wang Y, Toshiyuki H, Banchereau J, Merad M, Palucka AK. Human CD141+ dendritic cells induce CD4+ T cells to produce type 2 cytokines. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2014 Nov; 193(9).
Mielcarek M, Kirkorian AY, Hackman RC, Price J, Storer BE, Wood BL, Leboeuf M, Bogunovic M, Storb R, Inamoto Y, Flowers ME, Martin PJ, Collin M, Merad M. Langerhans cell homeostasis and turnover after nonmyeloablative and myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Transplantation 2014 Sep; 98(5).
Sivendran S, Chang R, Pham L, Phelps RG, Harcharik ST, Hall LD, Bernardo SG, Moskalenko MM, Sivendran M, Fu Y, de Moll EH, Pan M, Moon JY, Arora S, Cohain A, DiFeo A, Ferringer TC, Tismenetsky M, Tsui CL, Friedlander PA, Parides MK, Banchereau J, Chaussabel D, Lebwohl MG, Wolchok JD, Bhardwaj N, Burakoff SJ, Oh WK, Palucka K, Merad M, Schadt EE, Saenger YM. Dissection of immune gene networks in primary melanoma tumors critical for antitumor surveillance of patients with stage II-III resectable disease. The Journal of investigative dermatology 2014 Aug; 134(8).
Muller PA, Koscsó B, Rajani GM, Stevanovic K, Berres ML, Hashimoto D, Mortha A, Leboeuf M, Li XM, Mucida D, Stanley ER, Dahan S, Margolis KG, Gershon MD, Merad M, Bogunovic M. Crosstalk between muscularis macrophages and enteric neurons regulates gastrointestinal motility. Cell 2014 Jul; 158(2).
Khosravi A, Yáñez A, Price JG, Chow A, Merad M, Goodridge HS, Mazmanian SK. Gut microbiota promote hematopoiesis to control bacterial infection. Cell host & microbe 2014 Mar; 15(3).
Bongers G, Pacer ME, Geraldino TH, Chen L, He Z, Hashimoto D, Furtado GC, Ochando J, Kelley KA, Clemente JC, Merad M, van Bakel H, Lira SA. Interplay of host microbiota, genetic perturbations, and inflammation promotes local development of intestinal neoplasms in mice. The Journal of experimental medicine 2014 Mar; 211(3).
Agudo J, Ruzo A, Tung N, Salmon H, Leboeuf M, Hashimoto D, Becker C, Garrett-Sinha LA, Baccarini A, Merad M, Brown BD. The miR-126-VEGFR2 axis controls the innate response to pathogen-associated nucleic acids. Nature immunology 2014 Jan; 15(1).
Martin JC, Bériou G, Heslan M, Chauvin C, Utriainen L, Aumeunier A, Scott CL, Mowat A, Cerovic V, Houston SA, Leboeuf M, Hubert FX, Hémont C, Merad M, Milling S, Josien R. Interleukin-22 binding protein (IL-22BP) is constitutively expressed by a subset of conventional dendritic cells and is strongly induced by retinoic acid. Mucosal immunology 2014 Jan; 7(1).
Baliram R, Chow A, Huber AK, Collier L, Ali MR, Morshed SA, Latif R, Teixeira A, Merad M, Liu L, Sun L, Blair HC, Zaidi M, Davies TF. Thyroid and bone: macrophage-derived TSH-β splice variant increases murine osteoblastogenesis. Endocrinology 2013 Dec; 154(12).
Lavin Y, Merad M. Macrophages: gatekeepers of tissue integrity. Cancer immunology research 2013 Oct; 1(4).
Taouli B, Johnson RS, Hajdu CH, Oei MT, Merad M, Yee H, Rusinek H. Hepatocellular carcinoma: perfusion quantification with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2013 Oct; 201(4).
Hamard PJ, Barthelery N, Hogstad B, Mungamuri SK, Tonnessen CA, Carvajal LA, Senturk E, Gillespie V, Aaronson SA, Merad M, Manfredi JJ. The C terminus of p53 regulates gene expression by multiple mechanisms in a target- and tissue-specific manner in vivo. Genes & development 2013 Sep; 27(17).
Hashimoto D, Chow A, Noizat C, Teo P, Beasley MB, Leboeuf M, Becker CD, See P, Price J, Lucas D, Greter M, Mortha A, Boyer SW, Forsberg EC, Tanaka M, van Rooijen N, García-Sastre A, Stanley ER, Ginhoux F, Frenette PS, Merad M. Tissue-resident macrophages self-maintain locally throughout adult life with minimal contribution from circulating monocytes. Immunity 2013 Apr; 38(4).
Chow A, Huggins M, Ahmed J, Hashimoto D, Lucas D, Kunisaki Y, Pinho S, Leboeuf M, Noizat C, van Rooijen N, Tanaka M, Zhao ZJ, Bergman A, Merad M, Frenette PS. CD169⁺ macrophages provide a niche promoting erythropoiesis under homeostasis and stress. Nature medicine 2013 Apr; 19(4).
Berres ML, Allen CE, Merad M. Pathological consequence of misguided dendritic cell differentiation in histiocytic diseases. Advances in immunology 2013; 120.
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