JOANNA DAVIES, D. PHIL.
President/Chief Executive Officer
Joanna Davies graduated with a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Immunology from Oxford University (UK) in 1986. She became Assistant Professor at The Scripps Research Institute in 1998 and established her first independent research group there. In 2001, she moved her research group to Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, where she became Professor and Director of Scientific Affairs from 2009–2014. She established Ballad Research Institute (BRI, previously called San Diego Diabetes Research Institute) in June 2013 and incorporated San Diego Biomedical Research Institute (SDBRI) in July 2013. She is currently President & CEO of MSMRC, BRI and SDBRI. Dr. Davies contributes to the scientific community through participation and membership on grant review committees for the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Diabetes Association, and by acting as reviewer for several scientific journals.
PUBLICATIONS
Narsale A, Moya R, Davies JD. Human CD4+ CD25+ CD127hi cells and the Th1/Th2 phenotype. Clinical Immunology 2018 188:103-112
Narsale A, Davies, JD. Memory T cells in Type 1 Diabetes: The Devil is in the Detail. Current Diabetes Reports. Curr Diab Rep. 2017 17:61-68.
Ryan D, Sinha A, Bogan D, Davies J, Koziol J, ElShamy W. A niche that triggers aggressiveness within BRCA1-IRIS overexpressing triple negative tumors is supported by reciprocal interactions with the microenvironment. Oncotarget. 2017 8:103182-103206 PDF
Moya, R., Robertson, H.K., Payne, D., Narsale, A., Koziol, J., Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Study Group, Davies, J.D. A pilot study showing associations between frequency of CD4+ memory cell subsets at diagnosis and duration of partial remission in type 1 diabetes. Clinical Immunology. 2016: 166:167-172. PDF
Zhao C, Marrero I, Narsale A, Moya R, Davies JD. CD4+ CD44v.low cells are unique peripheral precursors that are distinct from recent thymic emigrants and stem cell-like memory cells. Cellular Immunology. 2015; 296:106-114. PDF
Marrero I, Davies JD. High-throughput sequencing of islet-infiltrating memory CD4+ T cells reveals a similar pattern of TCR Vβ usage in prediabetic and diabetic NOD mice. PLoS One. 2013;8(10):e76546 PDF
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