Research Interests

• The effects of age and obesity on the vasomotor, antithrombotic, and apoptotic characteristcs of endothelial progenitor cells

• 2003-2007, B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
• 2012 (expected), Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Manuscripts

• Kushner EJ, MacEneaney OJ, Morgan RG, Van Engelenburg AM, Van Guilder GP, DeSouza CA. CD31+ T cells represent a functionally distinct vascular T cell phenotype. Blood Cells Mol Dis. Mar-Apr;44(2): 74-78, 2010.

Abstracts/Presentations

• EJ Kushner, RG Morgan, JN Cech, CM Westby, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer, CA DeSouza. Aging is associated with a proapoptotic endothelial progenitor cell phenotype. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol.28:e140, 2008. Presented at the annual Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2008.