Dr. Shirin Kalyan

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsImmunology,Rheumatology
KeywordsExperimental Medicine, Translational Immunology, gamma/delta T cells, osteoporosis therapy, immune function

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityVancouver
InstitutionUniversity of British Columbia
InstituteFaculty of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dietrich KabelitzInstitut für Immunologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2011

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2011Shirin Kalyan, Daniella Wesch, Dieter Kabelitz: Aminobisphosphonates and Toll-like receptor ligands: Recruiting Vγ9Vδ2 T cells for the treatment of hematologic malignancy.. In: Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2011, 5206-5216
2011Joy Johnson, Robin Repta, Shirin Kalyan: Lenses and Analytic Frameworks. In: John Oliffe and Lorraine Greaves, Design and Research in Gender, Sex and Health. Sage Publications, 2011. Chapter 3
2010Shirin Kalyan, Jerilynn C. Prior: Bone Changes and Fracture Related to Menstrual Cycles and Ovulation . In: Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression, 2010, 213-233
2010Shirin Kalyan, Christine L Hitchcock, Sandra Sirrs, Jerilynn C Prior: Cardiovascular and metabolic effects of medroxyprogesterone acetate versus conjugated equine estrogen: A one-year randomized double-blind trial following premenopausal hysterectomy with bilateral ovariectomy. In: Pharmacotherapy, 2010, 442-452
2010Elyse Battistella, Shirin Kalyan, Jerilynn C Prior: Evaluation of successful methods and costs associated with recruiting 600 healthy women volunteers to a study of ovulation. In: Journal of Women's Health, 2010, 1519-1524
2009Shirin Kalyan, Anthony W Chow: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity: Human Vγ9Vδ2 T cells modulate CD40 and HMGB-1 expression. In: Mediators of Inflammation, 2009, Article ID 819408-(9 pages)
2008Shirin Kalyan, Anthony W Chow: Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 Induces the Translocation and Secretion of High Mobility Group-1 Protein from Both Activated T Cells and Monocytes. In: Mediators of Inflammation, 2008, Article ID 512196
2004Shirin Kalyan, Anthony W Chow: Human peripheral γδ T cells potentiate the early proinflammatory cytokine response to staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin-1. In: Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2004, 1892-1896
2001Winnie W Kum, Scott B Cameron, Ryan W Hung, Shirin Kalyan, Anthony W Chow: Temporal sequence and kinetics of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine secretion induced by toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. . In: Infection and Immunity, 2001, 7544-7549