Deborah Schwarz Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

ProxyKine is focused on leveraging, modulating and re-creating innate immune system functions as a means towards therapeutic intervention in autoimmune and oncological disorders.

Seattle, Wa

Advanced Cellular Dynamics (ACD) is a world-leader in the production, provision and application of novel cell-based assay systems. We are fascinated by protein structure and function as an integral component of cellular signaling - and how those signals impact cellular (and organismal) function(s). We explore our curiosity by leveraging our expertise in protein kinases, growth factors and cytokines. We take great pride in sharing this knowledge (and the resulting products and services) with our global clientele.

San Diego

What seems like a lifetime worth of GPCR biology! Learned the magic of real-time calcium imaging with my good friend and colleague Bob Petroski. That lesson will be remembered for life and has shaped how I now approach biology. Did you know that calcium currents oscillate, and the amplitude and frequency can be manipulated? Just consider what your FLIPR isn't telling you!! Not to mention all the other things none of us can even conceive - yet we should know....

San Diego

Schlafen.It took nearly 20 years before the mechanistic principals of this family were revealed - and I applaud the ground breaking revelations of those efforts. Now known to be a collection of transfer and ribosomal RNAses, the family has broad reaching impacts on cellular biology. What remains is understanding how such a critical function in cellular biology is regulated to impart the specificities that no doubt must exist.

Hanover, New Hampshire

Learned mouse genetics and discovered the wonder of T-cell biology. Was fortunate enough to re-discover the importance of 2-ME for driving in vitro lymphocyte immune function. Without that timely realignment of my research efforts, it would have been a very long graduate career.

Seattle

Moved with Barbara Nepom circa 1986 I believe. Here I continued to hone my Immunology skills studying HLA polymorphisms and mixed class II dimers. Learned lots of great tricks like in-gel hybridization with radiolabeled oligonucleotides (cutting edge for it's time) and various liquid chromatography techniques (and still remember some of those skills!). This was also where I had the opportunity to work more closely with Barbara's husband Jerry Nepom - a very gifted Immunologist. Together the Nepoms gave me unlicensed opportunity for which I will always be indebted, Jerry by the way championed regulatory T-cells long after they lost their appeal...and long before they were back in vogue.

Seattle

Where it all began (excluding a stint as a parking booth attendant at the UW). I began life making media with Joli Pinter - would bus to work each afternoon from the UW to downtown and put in an honest four hour shift. Shortly after started working with Patricia Thomas - learned some great skills and got my first taste of Immunology. After graduating in '85, began working with Barbara Nepom as a "real" Immunologist.

Ph.D., Immunology

B.S., Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Theta ChiGo Huskies!