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Clinical Investigations Section
John M. Hallenbeck, M.D., Senior Investigator
Dr. Hallenbeck received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After a medical internship and neurology residency at the University of Michigan, he entered the United States Navy. At the Naval Medical Research Institute his research focused on CNS decompression sickness and air embolism and later the study of inflammatory and immune mechanisms in acute brain ischemia. In 1983, he was appointed Chief of the Navy's neurology training program at the National Naval Medical Center and Professor, Vice-Chairman and Chairman for Research in the Department of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In 1991 he came to the NINDS as Chief of the newly created Stroke Branch. He received the Mihara Cerebrovascular Disorder Research Prize. Dr. Hallenbeck's laboratory is studying the cellular regulation of ischemic tolerance and inflammatory and immune mechanisms in the initiation and progression of stroke.
Staff:
- Tahir Ahmed, Predoctoral Fellow, 301-443-3424 ahmedta@ninds.nih.gov
- Paola Castri, M.D., Ph.D., Visiting Fellow castrip@ninds.nih.gov
- Bolanle Famakin, M.D., Clinical Fellow, 301-402-6936 famakinb@ninds.nih.gov
- Dace Klimanis, M.Sc, Research Assistant, 301-402-2338 KlimaniD@ninds.nih.gov
- Yang-Ja Lee-Wickner, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, 301-402-6939 wicknery@ninds.nih.gov
- Xinhui Li, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral IRTA, 301-435-6559 lixinh@ninds.nih.gov
- David McMullen, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, 301-451-6585 mcmulled@ninds.nih.gov
- Yongshan Mou, M.D., Senior Research Fellow, 301-594-2597 mouy@ninds.nih.gov
- Christl Reutzler, B.A., Research Assistant, 301-496-8111 RuetzleC@ninds.nih.gov
- Maria Spatz, M.D., Special Volunteer, 301-496-8111 spatzm@ninds.nih.gov
Research Interests:
The Clinical Investigations Section of the Stroke Branch conducts translational research on stroke prevention and stroke treatment. In spontaneously hypertensive, stroke-prone rats, we are studying ways of preventing development of spontaneous brain infarcts. This work is focused on immunologic approaches that suppress the endothelial activation produced by inflammatory cytokines such as TNF and IL-1. Mucosal tolerization to E-selectin targets immunomodulation to vascular segments that are becoming activated and suppresses spontaneous strokes and hemorrhages. This work is being translated into clinical trials.
We also study endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms that induce tolerance to hypoxia and ischemia in brain cells. This work is focused on the intracellular signaling pathways and expressed genes that regulate tolerance to hypoxia and ischemia in hibernating animals (a model of natural tolerance), and in preclinical stroke models and primary cultures of brain microvessel endothelial cells, astrocytes, microglia, cortical neurons and transformed cell lines that have been preconditioned to induce tolerance (models of induced tolerance). Multifunctional regulatory mechanisms that are conserved in the several tolerance models are of particular interest. Findings in preclinical models that have robust potential to treat stroke are candidates for translation into proof of concept clinical trials.
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Selected Publications:
- Lee YJ, Castri P, Bembry J, Maric D, Auh S, Hallenbeck JM (2009) SUMOylation participates in induction of ischemic tolerance, J Neurochem 109, 257-67.
- Ishibashi S, Maric D, Mou Y, Ohtani R, Ruetzler C, Hallenbeck JM (2009) Mucosal tolerance to E-selectin promotes the survival of newly generated neuroblasts via regulatory T-cell induction after stroke in spontaneously hypertensive rats, J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 29, 606-20.
- Wakita H, Ruetzler C, Illoh KO, Chen Y, Takanohashi A, Spatz M, Hallenbeck JM (2008) Mucosal tolerization to E-selectin protects against memory dysfunction and white matter damage in a vascular cognitive impairment model, J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 28, 341-53.
- Lee Y, Miyake S, Wakita H, McMullen DC, Azuma Y, Auh S, Hallenbeck JM (2007) Protein SUMOylation is massively increased in hibernation torpor and is critical for the cytoprotection provided by ischemic preconditioning and hypothermia in SH SY 5Y cells, J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 27, 950-62.
- Hallenbeck JM, Hansson GK, Becker KJ. (2005) Immunology of vascular disease: plaque to attack, TRENDS in Immunology 26, 550-56.
All Selected Publications
Contact Information:
Dr. John M. Hallenbeck
Clinical Investigations Section
Stroke Branch, NINDS
Building 10, Room 5B02, MSC 1401
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-1401
Telephone: 301-496-6231 office,
301-496-6231 laboratory,
301-402-2769 fax
Email: HallenbJ@ninds.nih.gov
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