The M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Yale University

Marie Egan, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Associate Director, Cystic Fibrosis Care Center

1986, M.D., The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY,

Research Interests

Understanding the regulation of ion transport across the airway epithelia in health and disease; cystic fibrosis.

Representative Publications

Weyler, R.T., K.A. Yyrko-Mauro, R. Rubenstein, W.J.W. Kollen, W. Reenstra, M.E. Egan, A.E. Mulberg. CFTR is functionally acitve in GnRH-expressing GT-7 hypothalamic neurons, American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, 46(3), C563-571, 1999.

Nasonkin, I., A. Alikisafoglu, C. Ambrose, P. Cahill, M. Chen, A. Sarniak, M.E. Egan, & P. M. Thomas. A novel sulfonylurea receptor family member expressed in the embryonic Drosophila dorasl vessel and tracheal system, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 274(41), 29420- 29425, 1999.

Cahill, P, M.W. Nason, Jr., M. T.Y. Yao, C. Ambrose, P. Thomas, M.E. Egan. Identification of the CFTR Domain that are important for interactions with ROMK2, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275, 16697-16701, 2000. in press.