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Olga Rojas
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Latest papers
The Ins and Outs of Central Nervous System Inflammation-Lessons Learned from Multiple Sclerosis.
Annual review of immunology · 2021
Regulation of neuroinflammation by B cells and plasma cells
Immunological Reviews · 2020
Early-life programming of mesenteric lymph node stromal cell identity by the lymphotoxin pathway regulates adult mucosal immunity.
Science immunology · 2019
Latest funding
- $100,000
Evaluating the role of intestinal inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease
BRAIN · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $849,150
Investigating the role of vesicular trafficking in oligodendrocytes to maintain myelination in health and diseases
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
The Ins and Outs of Central Nervous System Inflammation-Lessons Learned from Multiple Sclerosis.
Ramaglia V, Rojas O, Naouar I, Gommerman JL
Regulation of neuroinflammation by B cells and plasma cells
Angela A. Wang, Olga L. Rojas, Dennis S. W. Lee, Jennifer L. Gommerman
Early-life programming of mesenteric lymph node stromal cell identity by the lymphotoxin pathway regulates adult mucosal immunity.
Li C, Lam E, Perez-Shibayama C, Ward LA, Zhang J, Lee D, Nguyen A, Ahmed M, Brownlie E, Korneev KV, Rojas O, Sun T, Navarre W, He HH, Liao S, Martin A, Ludewig B, Gommerman JL
A sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1-directed agonist reduces central nervous system inflammation in a plasmacytoid dendritic cell-dependent manner.
Galicia-Rosas G, Pikor N, Schwartz JA, Rojas O, Jian A, Summers-Deluca L, Ostrowski M, Nuesslein-Hildesheim B, Gommerman JL
Evaluating the role of intestinal inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease
Principal investigators: Rojas, Olga
Keywords: Neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's
Investigating the role of vesicular trafficking in oligodendrocytes to maintain myelination in health and diseases
Principal investigators: Sugita, Shuzo
Keywords: Demyelination; Inflammation; Multiple Sclerosis; Myelin; Neurodegeneration; Oligodendrocyte; Snare; Vesicle Trafficking
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Jennifer Gommerman and Valeria Ramaglia: 43 shared papers
- Jennifer Gommerman and Mario Ostrowski: 19 shared papers
- Jennifer Gommerman and Alberto Martin: 14 shared papers
- Alberto Martin and William Navarre: 7 shared papers
- Jennifer Gommerman and Olga Rojas: 4 shared papers
- Jennifer Gommerman and Housheng He: 3 shared papers
- Alberto Martin and Mario Ostrowski: 2 shared papers
- Alberto Martin and Housheng He: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Gommerman and William Navarre: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Gommerman and Shan Liao: 1 shared paper
- Alberto Martin and Shan Liao: 1 shared paper
- Alberto Martin and Valeria Ramaglia: 1 shared paper
- Alberto Martin and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- William Navarre and Housheng He: 1 shared paper
- William Navarre and Shan Liao: 1 shared paper
- William Navarre and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- Mario Ostrowski and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- Housheng He and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- Shan Liao and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- Valeria Ramaglia and Olga Rojas: 1 shared paper
- Department of Immunology
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
- Department of Molecular Genetics
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jennifer Gommerman
Department of Immunology
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Alberto Martin
Department of Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
William Navarre
Department of Molecular Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Mario Ostrowski
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Housheng He
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Shan Liao
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Valeria Ramaglia
Department of Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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