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Alfred Ayala, Ph.D.

Professor (Research) of Surgery

Professor Ayala's research interests include differential effects of sepsis on immune cell function, the role of programmed cell death/apoptosis in immune dysfunction observed following hemorrhage and/or sepsis, as well as the contribution of the apoptotic process to phagocyte mediated acute lung injury resultant from shock and/or septic insults. Currently the work in Professor AyalaÆs laboratory centers on understanding the patho-physiological effects of shock/tissue injury/sepsis that lead to the immune dysfunction and subsequent multiple organ failure in the critically ill trauma patient.

Ph.D. Cleveland State University, 1985
Regulatory Biology

M.S. Cleveland State University, 1979
Biology

B.S. Bowling Green State University, 1976
Applied Microbiology

For more information, please see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Alfred_Ayala