Heather Van Epps received a Ph.D. in Immunology from UMass Chan Medical School, where she studied T lymphocyte biology and function during viral infection. She continued her immunology research as a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, after which she embarked on an editorial career that spanned more than two decades.
Heather has experience in both basic/translational and clinical research and publishing environments, having served in various editorial roles at The Journal of Experimental Medicine and at the Lancet Group, where she served as Deputy Editor for both The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology before becoming the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Rheumatology in 2019. She later served Executive Editor at PLOS Medicine before transitioning to a freelance career.
Microglia markers - such as Iba1, TMEM119, CX3CR1 - are used to identify microglia and study their role in neuroinflammation, synaptic pruning and CNS homeostasis...
Basophil markers, including CD123, FcεRI, CD63, and CD203c, facilitate identification of these cells such as during allergic reactions and parasitic infection...
Dendritic cell markers, including CD11c, CD1c, class II MHC, and CD205 (DEC-205), facilitate the identification of these cells in blood and tissue...
Regulatory T (Treg) cell markers, including CD3, CD4, CD25, CD127, FoxP3, and Helios are used to identify Treg cells in blood and tissue...
Neutrophil markers, including CD11b, Ly6G, and GR1 in mice and CD66b, CD15, CD16, and CD33 in humans, are used to identify neutrophils in blood and tissue...
