Mentors: Marshall Hertz, MD and Richard King, MD, PhD
Current Position: Private Practice, Twin Cities
T32 Support: 2001 - 2003
Education:
1987 – 1990, A.S., Suffolk City Community College, NY
1990 – 1992, B.S., S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, NY
1992 – 1996, M.D., Albany Medical College, NY
1996 – 2000, Med/Peds Residency, University of Minnesota
2000 – 2003, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, University
of MN
Project: Dr. Gimino’s research focused on identifying biomarkers of acute lung rejection using gene expression microarrays on bronchoalveolar lavage cells from lung transplant recipients. This was quite successful, as indicated below.
Publications:
Gimino V, Kamat D. Index of suspicion. Case 4. Diagnosis: Lyme disease. Pediatrics in Review 2001; 22(1):22-31.
Hertz MI, Lande J, Gimino VJ, King R. Gene expression patterns in lung transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings 2001; 33(7-8):3566-7.
Gimino V, Lande J, King R, Hertz MI. Effects of Immunosuppression on gene expression in lung transplant recipients. Poster presentation, American Transplant Congress May 2002
Lande J, Gimino V, Hertz MI, King R. Comparison of transcript models in gene expression microarrays. Poster presentation, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (Meeting for the International Society for Computational Biology) August 2002.
Lande J, Gimino V, Hertz MI, King R. Characterization of lung allograft rejection using microarray gene expression profiling. Poster presentation, American Society of Human Genetics, October 2002.
Gimino V, Manivel C, Leonard A, Steiner M. A rare cause of respiratory distress in an eleven-month-old. Clinical Pediatrics 2002; 41(2):121-3.
Gimino VJ, Lande JD, Berryman TR, King RA, Hertz MI. Gene expression profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage cells in acute lung rejection. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003; 168(10):1237-42.
Last updated 2-18-2008