Cameron S Mcalpine, PhD

Dr. Cameron McAlpine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Cardiology, and the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience. He is a Principle Investigator in the Cardiovascular Research Institute and is a faculty member of the Friedman Brain Institute, the Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, and the Brain-Body Research Center.

Dr. McAlpine completed his PhD at McMaster University in Canada and his postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The overarching theme of the McAlpine lab is to investigate brain-body communication circuits in chronic inflammatory disorders. We have specific focuses on (1) the neural output and interoceptive mechanisms associating sleep and inflammation in cardiovascular disease, and (2) the involvement of hematopoietic growth factors in glial-peripheral immune crosstalk during neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. We use mouse models and human trials to study how lifestyle factors, including sleep and exercise, modulate these interactions. The McAlpine lab is highly multidisciplinary and incorporates innovative tools and approaches at the interface of immunology, cardiology, and neuroscience to study the fundamental impact neuro-immune interactions and brain-body communication in heart and brain disorders.

The McAlpine lab website can be found here: https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/mcalpinelab/