Svetlana P. Chapoval

University of Maryland

Svetlana Chapoval, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a member of the Program in Oncology at the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Chapoval obtained an MD from Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and a Ph.D. from Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia. After her postdoctoral training in immunology at the Mayo Clinic and junior research faculty appointment in Pulmonary Medicine at Yale University, she joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine to continue her research on immunogenetics and immunoregulatory mechanisms of asthma pathophysiology. She established new research programs aimed at defining selected semaphorins as immune checkpoints and regulators of inflammation in immune-mediated diseases. Dr. Chapoval founded SemaPlex LLC to translate her research into preclinical development and clinical applications.

Svetlana P. Chapoval

2books edited

4chapters authored

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This book provides an insightful and analytical look at several aspects related to asthma. Written by experts in the field, chapters cover such topics as asthma phenotypes and current biological treatments, anaphylactic reactions in radiology procedures, asthma and COVID-19, mobile apps for both patients and providers, the function of non-coding RNAs in asthma mediated by Th2 cells, and the roles of B7 and semaphorin molecules. The book provides readers the information they need to get a clear understanding of asthma, its phenotypes, treatment biologics, COVID-19 effects, digital care frameworks, epigenetics, and costimulators/immune checkpoints.

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