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Norman Altman
Internal Advisory Committee Member

Professor of Pathology & Microbiology and Immunology
Division of Comparative Pathology
Vice Provost For Research
Office of Rs. 1600
2017 A Hallisee Miami, Fl 33136
Phone: 305-243-6415

Fax: 305-243-3549

Biography

Education

V.M.D. 1963 University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

Comparative pathology and animal models of human disease. Current studies include the pathogenesis of mouse hepatitis virus, graft vs. host disease, the speciation of crytosporidium. Other studies in our laboratories include transgenic models for prostate cancer and viral carcinogenesis.

Recent Publications

Baker MB, Altman NH, Podack ER, Levy RB. The role cell-mediated cytotoxicity in acute GVHD after MHC-mathced allogenic bone marrow transplantation in mice. J Exp Med 183:2645-2656, 1996

Perez-Stable C, Altman NH, Brown J,Harbison M, Cray C, Roos BA. Prostate, adrenocortial, and brown adipose tumors in fetal globin/antigen transgenioc mice. Lab Invest 74(2):363-373,1996

Hines II ME, Cray C,Elvinger F, Altman NH, Macrophage inhibitor factor - A3 derived from Mycobacterium avium serovar 2 inhibits candidacidal activity of murine peritoneal marophages 2001. Vet. Microbiol. 53:295-302,1996.

Perez-Stable C,. Altman NH ,Mehta PP, Defton LJ, Ross BA. Prostate cancer progression metastasis and gene expresion I transgenic mice. Cancer Research 57:9000-906, 1997