Kate Townsend Creasy * UCSF Profiles

Kate Townsend Creasy, PhD

Title(s)	Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Research Inst
School	School of Medicine
Phone	415-476-1155
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Biography

Education and Training

University of California, San Francisco	Postdoctoral Research		Medicine/ Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of Kentucky	PhD	2015	Nutritional Sciences
University of North Carolina, Greensboro	Post-Baccalaureate		Human Nutrition & Dietetics
Greensboro College	B.S.		Business Admin/Economics

Awards and Honors

University of California San Francisco	2018		T32 Postdoctoral Training Grant- Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cardiovascular Disease
University of Kentucky	2014 -	2015	Graduate School Academic Year Fellowship
University of Kentucky	2012 -	2014	T32 Predoctoral Training Grant- Nutrition and Oxidative Stress
University of Kentucky	2012 -	2015	Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award
University of Kentucky	2010		Paul A. Thornton Graduate Fellowship
University of North Carolina, Greensboro	2010		Lloyd International Honors College Student Excellence Award
Greensboro College	2005		ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American

Overview

My research interests are understanding the biochemical properties of lipids and lipoproteins that contribute to the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, both from a molecular and genetic perspective. Cancer and cardiovascular disease have many common underlying etiologies and the metabolic pathways that are disrupted in each pathology is intertwined with the other. A key feature of both cancer and cardiovascular disease is dysfunctional lipid metabolism. My research goals are to understand the genetic and regulatory mechanisms of lipid metabolism that become altered in the progression of these diseases, and to develop methods to detect these alterations to be used for prevention and earlier treatment interventions.

Interests

lipid metabolism, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, ovarian cancer, tumor development, high-density lipoprotein, protein biochemistry

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Publications

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Creasy KT, Kane JP, Malloy MJ. Emerging roles of HDL in immune function. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2018 Dec; 29(6):486-487. PMID: 30382953.

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Jiang J, Creasy KT, Purnell J, Peterson ML, Spear BT. Zhx2 (zinc fingers and homeoboxes 2) regulates major urinary protein gene expression in the mouse liver. J Biol Chem. 2017 04 21; 292(16):6765-6774. PMID: 28258223.

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Creasy KT, Jiang J, Ren H, Peterson ML, Spear BT. Zinc Fingers and Homeoboxes 2 (Zhx2) Regulates Sexually Dimorphic Cyp Gene Expression in the Adult Mouse Liver. Gene Expr. 2016; 17(1):7-17. PMID: 27197076.

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Gedaly R, Angulo P, Chen C, Creasy KT, Spear BT, Hundley J, Daily MF, Shah M, Evers BM. The role of PI3K/mTOR inhibition in combination with sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma treatment. Anticancer Res. 2012 Jul; 32(7):2531-6. PMID: 22753710.

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