Dr. Nicola Allen
Health, Role of astrocytes in brain function
Health
Immunology, Biochemistry
Immunoregulatory role of protease and protease inhibitors
Autoinflammatory diseases
Pathophysiology of body barriers
Award from the Rector of the Jagiellonian University for teaching achievements, Poland, 1990
Cancer Research Institute Research Award in Cancer Immunology, USA, 1998
International Union Against Cancer (Yamagiwa Yoshida) Study Award, USA, 2002
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, 2003
Fogarty International Collaboration Award, USA, 2005
Award from the Rector of the Jagiellonian University for scientific achievements, Poland, 2006 and 2008
Gold Cross of Merit from President of Poland, Poland, 2011
English, Polish
Cichy, J., Potempa, J., Chawla, R. K., Travis, J. (1995) Stimulatory effect of inflammatory cytokines on alpha1 antichymotrypsin expression in human lung derived epithelial cells. J. Clin. Invest., 95, 2729-2733,
Cichy J., Bals, R., Potempa, J., Mani, A., Puré, E. (2002) Proteinase mediated release of CD44 from epithelial cells. Soluble CD44 is a component of cellular matrices. J. Biol. Chem., 277, 44440-44447,
Zabel, B. A., Allen, S. J., Kulig, P., Allen, J. A., Cichy, J., Handel, T. M., Butcher, E. C. (2005) Chemerin activation by serine proteases of the coagulation, fibrinolytic and inflammatory cascades. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 34661-34666,
Kulig, P. Zabel, B. A., Dubin, G., Allen, S. J., Ohyama, T., Potempa, J., Handel, T. M., Butcher, E. C., and Cichy, J. (2007) Staphylococcus aureus-derived staphopain B, a potent cysteine protease activator of plasma chemerin. J. Immunol. 178, 3713-3720,
Wegrzyn, J., Potla, R., Chwae, J., Sepur, NB., Zhang, Q., Koeck, T., Derecka, M., Szczepanek, K., Szelag, M., Gornicka, A., Moh, A., Moghaddas, S., Chen, Q., Bobbili, S., Cichy, J., Dulak, J., Baker, DP., Wolfman, A., Stuehr, D., Hassan, MO., Fu, X., Avadhani, N., Drake, J. I., Fawcett, P., Lesnefsky, E. J., and Larner, A. C. (2009) A Novel Function of Stat3 in Cellular Respiration. Science, 5915, 793-797,
Chalaris, A., Adam, N., Sina, C., Rosenstiel, P., Lehmann-Koch, J., Schirmacher, P., Hartmann, D., Cichy, J., Gawrilova, O., Schreiber, S., Jostock, T., Mathews, V., Hassler, R., Becker, C., Neurath, MF., Reiss, K., Saftig, P., Scheller, J., Rose-John, S. (2010) Critical role of the Disintegrin Metalloptotease ADAM17 for Intestinal Inflammation and Regeneration in mice. J. Exp. Med. 207(8):1617-1624,
Kulig, P., Kantyka, T., Zabel, BA, Bana?, M., Chyra, A., Stefaska, A., Allen, SJ., Handel, TM., Kozik, A., Potempa, J., Butcher, EC, Cichy J. (2011) Regulation of Chemerin Chemoattractant and Anti-bacterial Activity by Human Cysteine Cathepsins. J. Immunol. 187(3):1403-1410,
Skrzeczynska-Moncznik, J., Wlodarczyk, A., Zabieglo, K., Kapinska-Mrowiecka, M., Marewicz, E., Dubin, A., Potempa, J., Cichy J. (2012) Secretory leukocyte proteinase inhibitor (SLPI) competent DNA deposits are potent stimulators of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. Implication for psoriasis. J. Immunol. 189(4):1611-1617,
Banas, M., Zabieglo, K., Kasetty, G., Kapinska-Mrowiecka, M., Borowczyk, J. Drukala, J., Murzyn, K., Zabel, BA., Butcher, EC., Schroeder, JM., Schmidtchen, A., Cichy, J. (2013) Chemerin is an antimicrobial agent in human epidermis. (2013), PLOS One 8(3):e58709,
1Marczynska J, Ozga A, Wlodarczyk A, Majchrzak-Gorecka M, Kulig P, Banas M, Michalczyk-Wetula D, Majewski P, Hutloff A, Schwarz J, Chalaris A, Scheller J, Rose-John S, Cichy J. (2014) The Role of Metalloproteinase ADAM17 in Regulating ICOS Ligand-Mediated Humoral Immune Responses. J Immunol. 193(6):2753-63.
1R03 TW007174 – Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award, NIH USA. Proteinase Regulators of Immune Cell Traffic Mechanisms.- foreign PI
SP6MTKD-CT-2006-042586, Marie Curie Tranfer of Knowledge grant, European Union 6th FP ACUP : Functional analysis of new acute phase proteins. – Group Leader
TEAM/2010-5/1 -Research grant from Foundation for Polish Science New insights into chemerin in pathophysiology (2010-2014) – PI
UMO-2011/01/B/NZ6/00278 -Research grant form Natonal Science Center (NCN) Role of metalloproteinase ADAM17 in humoral immune response (2011-2014) – PI
MAESTRO UMO-2011/02/A/NZ5/00337 -Research grant form Natonal Science Center (NCN) Inhibitors of serine proteases as regulators of dendritic cell functions (2012-2017) – PI
SYMFONIA – UMO-2014/12/W/NZ6/00454-Research grant form Natonal Science Center (NCN) The role of antimicrobial chemerin in skin biology (2014-2019) – PI
International Union Against Cancer, Switzerland, 2008
American Association of Immunologists, USA, 2008
Polish Society of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 2012
Associate Editorial Board – American Journal of Clinical
Experimental Immunolgy, 2013
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