Emma Mohr

EDUCATION

MD – University of Iowa

PhD – University of Iowa

RESEARCH SUMMARY

The mission of our research is to improve the prevention, diagnosis and management of birth defects and deficits associated with congenital infections. Our research focuses on defining immune correlates of protection in congenital Zika virus infection and the identification of early neural predictors of neurodevelopmental deficits. We utilize a nonhuman primate model of Zika virus question and assessments translated from the human clinical setting to answer these questions.

RESEARCH DETAIL

Our research focuses on defining immune correlates of protection in congenital Zika virus infection and the identification of early neural predictors of neurodevelopmental deficits. We utilize a nonhuman primate model of Zika virus infection to help answer the questions that cannot answered with clinical studies alone. We are defining features of maternal Zika virus infection that are associated with worse developmental outcomes in infants, the earliest fetal and infant immune responses to prenatal Zika virus infection, and the neuropathology of developmental deficits using quantitative histological studies.

Publications

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/emma.mohr.1/bibliography/public/