Victoria Gail Weis, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Victoria Gail Weis, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Research Interests
- Epithelial Cells
- Intestine, Small
- Cell Therapy
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis
- Education
- AB, Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U), 2005
- PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2013
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Departments and Affiliations
- Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Pediatrics
Research
- Human placental-derived stem cell therapy ameliorates experimental necrotizing enterocolitis. Weis VG, Deal AC, Mekkey G, Clouse C, Gaffley M, Whitaker E, Peeler CB, Weis JA, Schwartz MZ, Atala A. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2021 04; 320(4):G658-G674.
- Recruitment of Polarity Complexes and Tight Junction Proteins to the Site of Apical Bulk Endocytosis. Engevik AC, Krystofiak ES, Kaji I, Meyer AR, Weis VG, Goldstein A, Coutts AW, Melkamu T, Saqui-Salces M, Goldenring JR. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021; 12(1):59-80.
- Reversible deficits in apical transporter trafficking associated with deficiency in diacylglycerol acyltransferase. Schlegel C, Lapierre LA, Weis VG, Williams JA, Kaji I, Pinzon-Guzman C, Prasad N, Boone B, Jones A, Correa H, Levy SE, Han X, Wang M, Thomsen K, Acra S, Goldenring JR. Traffic. 2018 11; 19(11):879-892.
- Loss of MYO5B Leads to Reductions in Na+ Absorption With Maintenance of CFTR-Dependent Cl- Secretion in Enterocytes. Engevik AC, Kaji I, Engevik MA, Meyer AR, Weis VG, Goldstein A, Hess MW, Müller T, Koepsell H, Dudeja PK, Tyska M, Huber LA, Shub MD, Ameen N, Goldenring JR. Gastroenterology. 2018 12; 155(6):1883-1897.e10.
- Apical Membrane Alterations in Non-intestinal Organs in Microvillus Inclusion Disease. Schlegel C, Weis VG, Knowles BC, Lapierre LA, Martin MG, Dickman P, Goldenring JR, Shub MD. Dig Dis Sci. 2018 02; 63(2):356-365.