Matthew J. Jorgensen, PhD

Professor, Pathology - Comparative Medicine

Research Interests

Diet
Behavior, Animal
Cardiovascular Diseases
Disease Models, Animal
Vitamin D
Vaccines

About Me

Matthew J Jorgensen Lab

Education Program Involvement

Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology PhD
Program Research Interest: Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Cardiovascular Physiology and Hypertension, Regenerative Medicine, Neuro- and Behavioral Pharmacology, Cancer Therapeutics Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Lifespan Physiology.

Education: BS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989; MA, University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), 1991; PhD, University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), 1994
Fellowship: Behavioral Science, University of California - Los Angeles, 2000
Positions: Professor, Pathology - Comparative Medicine
Departments and Affiliations: Pathology - Comparative Medicine; Center for Biomedical Informatics; Center for Precision Medicine; Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention; Center for Vaccines at the Extremes of Aging; TrEVR (Translational Eye and Vision Research Center)

Research

Publications

Predictable fabrication of pre-made alginate hydrogel microtubes for stem cell aggregation using needle-in-needle devices. Jorgensen M, Gibbons A, Sui K, Carpenter R, Zhang X, Xie Y. Biofabrication. 2021 May; 13(3)
Efficiency of whole-exome sequencing in old world and new world primates using human capture reagents. Chan J, Yao W, Howard TD, Hawkins GA, Olivier M, Jorgensen MJ, Cheeseman IH, Cole SA, Cox LA. J Med Primatol. 2021 Jun; 50(3):176-181.
Temporal emergence of age-associated changes in cognitive and physical function in vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus). Frye BM, Valure PM, Craft S, Baxter MG, Scott C, Wise-Walden S, Bissinger DW, Register HM, Copeland C, Jorgensen MJ, Justice JN, Kritchevsky SB, Register TC, Shively CA. Geroscience. 2021 Feb;
Lipocalin-2 is an anorexigenic signal in primates. Petropoulou PI, Mosialou I, Shikhel S, Hao L, Panitsas K, Bisikirska B, Luo N, Bahna F, Kim J, Carberry P, Zanderigo F, Simpson N, Bakalian M, Kassir S, Shapiro L, Underwood MD, May CM, Soligapuram Sai KK, Jorgensen MJ, Confavreux CB, Shapses S, Laferrère B, Mintz A, Mann JJ, Rubin M, Kousteni S. Elife. 2020 11; 9
Anatomy of nerve fiber bundles at micrometer-resolution in the vervet monkey visual system. Takemura H, Palomero-Gallagher N, Axer M, Gräßel D, Jorgensen MJ, Woods R, Zilles K. Elife. 2020 08; 9

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Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Research Focus Areas

Translation to Care

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