Clarissa Koch
EDUCATION
- September 2009- Current: PhD Program – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Dr. Lawreen Connors Lab – Advisor - 2009 : Bsc Bio-medical Sciences, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Amyloid Treatment & Research Program in the Conte (K) Building, focusing on transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis
MEMBERSHIPS IN ORGANIZATIONS
- Member of GMSSO at Boston University
PRESENTATIONS
- Cardiotoxicity of pre-fibrillar transthyretin oligomers and attenuation by doxycycline. Clarissa M Koch, Elena Klimtchuk , David C. Seldin, and Lawreen H. Connors. XIIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis, Groningen, the Netherlands 2012
- Biomolecular Characterization of Transthyretin Oligomeric Interactions with the Molecular Chaperone Clusterin. Michael J Greene, Elena Klimtchuk, Clarissa M Koch, David Seldin and Lawreen H Connors. XIIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis, Groningen, the Netherlands 2012
- Effects of cytoskeleton-active agents on the mechanical properties of rat renal glomerular capillaries and glomeruli. Hans M. Wyss, Fitzroy J. Byfield, Clarissa M. Koch, Leslie A. Bruggeman, Yaxian Ding, Chunfa Huang, Joel M. Henderson, Martin R. Pollak, Paul A. Janmey, David A. Weitz, R. Tyler Miller. Renal week , American Society of Nephrology, San Diego, CA 2009
TEACHING/EXTRACURRICULAR
- Medical Immunology Tutor
Spring 2011, 2012, 2013
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA - Medical Immunology Tutor Coordinator
Spring 2012, 2013
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA - Teaching Assistant Molecular Metabolism Graduate Course FC706
Spring 2013
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA