Darrell Pilling's guest appearances

Darrell Pilling

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

David Katz

David de Rothschild

Lisa Randall

Scott Horton

Peter Anderson

Jim Thebaut

Ben Bova

Ken Scholes

Frans Johansson

Beth Israel

Gerald Wheeler

Richard Black

Walter Murch

Michael MacKay

David Stanley

OwlTail

Richard Gomer

Cardiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibrotic disease, serum amyloid P. In 2001, Dr. Gomer and Dr. Pilling discovered that a naturally occurring protein in human blood called serum amyloid P prevented a subset of human blood monocytes from differentiating into cells called fibrocytes. Fibrocytes participate in both wound healing and fibrotic lesions, and they play a central role in fibrotic diseases, including scleroderma, pulmonary fibrosis, renal fibrosis, cirrhosis of the liver, airway wall thickening in asthma, and cardiac fibrosis.

Dr. Richard Gomer, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Dr. Darrell Pilling, Faculty Fellow in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, 2-1-07