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University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix 445 North 5th Street, Room 319A, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Associate Research Professor, Research Series
Associate Research Professor, Research Series - Internal Medicine
Faculty
Internal Medicine
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Immunology, 2006
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, 2002
- PhD: Cancer Immunology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, 1998
Publications
- Kala M, Ndiaye MDB, Kelley E, Harvey M, Babur F, Grischo G, Marshall JS, Yi J, Engelbrektson AL, Altin JA, Barker BM, Keim P, Knox KS, Settles EW.
Identification of Coccidioidomycosis Immunoreactive Peptides That Recall T-Cell Responses Indicating Past Exposure. J Infect Dis. 2025 Jul 11;231(6):1619-1628. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf118.PMID: 40094390 - Kala M, Casanova NG, Feng A, Jacobsen JR, Grischo G, Liang Y, Moreno Y, Wang T, Knox KS. Carbon nanotube stimulation of human mononuclear cells to model granulomatous inflammation. Am J Transl Res. 2023 Mar 15;15(3):1704-1714. eCollection 2023.PMID: 37056834
- Bagchi S, Cai A, Bilal AS, Gamez-Luque J, Rosa-Garrido M, Patton B, Kala M, Glembotski CC, Blackwood EA. Doxorubicin exposure leads to cardiac fibroblast dysregulation and worsens fibrotic remodeling in the pathological heart. J Mol Cell Cardiol Plus. 2026 Apr 13;16:100846. 2026. PMID: 42022755.
- Schippel N, Kala M, Sharma S. Erythropoietin-dependent Acquisition of CD71hiCD105hi Phenotype within CD235a- Early Erythroid Progenitors. Stem Cells. 2025 Sep 16;43(12):sxaf061. doi: 10.1093/stmcls/sxaf061. Online ahead of print.PMID: 40972026
Research Interests
Translational immunology, Development of immune-based diagnostic and monitoring platforms, Infectious diseases, Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, Pulmonary diseases, Identification and characterization of Coccidioides-specific T-cell responses, Cellular diagnostics and immune monitoring for Valley Fever, Development of cytokine release assays, Flow cytometry-based immune profiling platforms and T-cell diagnostic technologies.