Assistant Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic); Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Departments & Organizations
Surgery: Cardiac Surgery | Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program | Yale Medical Group: Heart Center, Yale-New Haven
Research Interests
role of micro RNAs in cardiac remodeling, cardiac regeneration, TGF-beta signaling in degenerative mitral valve disease, negative gene regulation of the MHC class II antigens
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Education
- M.D., University of Iceland, 1997
Selected Publications
- Arnar Geirsson, Alfred L.M. Bothwell and Graeme L. Hammond. Inhibition of alloresponse by a human trophoblast non-coding RNA suppressing CIITA promoter III and MHC class II expression in murine B-cells. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 23;1077-81, 2004.
- Arnar Geirsson, Indu Paliwal, Raymond J. Lynch, Alfred L.M. Bothwell and Graeme L. Hammond. Class II transactivator promoter activity is suppressed through regulation by a trophoblast non-coding RNA. Transplantation. 76;387-94, 2003.
- Arnar Geirsson, Raymond J. Lynch, Indu Paliwal, Alfred L.M. Bothwell and Graeme L. Hammond. Human trophoblast noncoding RNA suppresses CIITA promoter III activity in murine B-lymphocytes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 301;718-724, 2003.
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