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Overview

Ajay Chawla is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their work spans multiple intersecting fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad domains, their research particularly focuses on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Chawla's research covers several specialized topics such as Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, RNA Research and Splicing, Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, interferon and immune responses, Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and Fatty Acid Research and Health.

In terms of publication venues, Ajay Chawla has contributed most frequently to the SSRN Electronic Journal, with seven publications. Other notable venues include Theranostics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ajay Chawla include:

  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) - 'Zoom' Application Boon or Bane, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • An evolutionary trade-off between host immunity and metabolism drives fatty liver in male mice, 2022, Science
  • Distinct signaling and transcriptional pathways regulate peri-weaning development and cold-induced recruitment of beige adipocytes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Role of mTORC2 in biphasic regulation of brown fat metabolism in response to mild and severe cold, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Loss of myeloid Bmal1 exacerbates hypertensive vascular remodelling through interaction with STAT6 in mice, 2021, Cardiovascular Research

Ajay Chawla collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Frequent co-authors include Xiao Yu Tian, Joni Nikkanen, Yew Ann Leong, William C. Krause, and Denis Đermadi.

Best Publications

  • Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease

    Thomas A. Wynn;Ajay Chawla;Jeffrey W. Pollard;Jeffrey W. Pollard

  • Macrophage-specific PPARγ controls alternative activation and improves insulin resistance

    Justin I. Odegaard;Roberto R. Ricardo-Gonzalez;Matthew H. Goforth;Christine R. Morel

  • Macrophage-mediated inflammation in metabolic disease

    Ajay Chawla;Khoa D. Nguyen;Khoa D. Nguyen;Y. P. Sharon Goh;Y. P. Sharon Goh

  • Eosinophils Sustain Adipose Alternatively Activated Macrophages Associated with Glucose Homeostasis

    Davina Wu;Ari B. Molofsky;Hong Erh Liang;Roberto R. Ricardo-Gonzalez

  • Oxidative metabolism and PGC-1β attenuate macrophage-mediated inflammation

    Divya Vats;Lata Mukundan;Justin I. Odegaard;Lina Zhang

  • Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamines to sustain adaptive thermogenesis

    Khoa D. Nguyen;Yifu Qiu;Xiaojin Cui;Y. P. Sharon Goh;Y. P. Sharon Goh

  • Type 2 innate lymphoid cells control eosinophil homeostasis

    Jesse C. Nussbaum;Steven J. Van Dyken;Jakob Von Moltke;Laurence E. Cheng

  • Metabolic Regulation of Immune Responses

    Kirthana Ganeshan;Ajay Chawla

  • Innate lymphoid type 2 cells sustain visceral adipose tissue eosinophils and alternatively activated macrophages

    Ari B. Molofsky;Jesse C. Nussbaum;Hong-Erh Liang;Steven J. Van Dyken

  • Eosinophils and type 2 cytokine signaling in macrophages orchestrate development of functional beige fat

    Yifu Qiu;Khoa D. Nguyen;Justin I. Odegaard;Xiaojin Cui

  • Alternative (M2) activation of Kupffer cells by PPARδ ameliorates obesity-induced insulin resistance

    Justin I. Odegaard;Roberto R. Ricardo-Gonzalez;Alex Red Eagle;Divya Vats

  • Pleiotropic actions of insulin resistance and inflammation in metabolic homeostasis

    Justin I. Odegaard;Ajay Chawla

  • Type 2 innate signals stimulate fibro/adipogenic progenitors to facilitate muscle regeneration.

    Jose E. Heredia;Lata Mukundan;Francis M. Chen;Alisa A. Mueller

  • Alternative Macrophage Activation and Metabolism

    Justin I. Odegaard;Ajay Chawla

  • Signaling by IL-6 promotes alternative activation of macrophages to limit endotoxemia and obesity-associated resistance to insulin

    Jan Mauer;Bhagirath Chaurasia;Julia Goldau;Merly C Vogt

  • COVID-19 vaccine coverage in health-care workers in England and effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against infection (SIREN): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study.

    Victoria Jane Hall;Victoria Jane Hall;Sarah Foulkes;Ayoub Saei;Nick Andrews;Nick Andrews

  • Activated type 2 innate lymphoid cells regulate beige fat biogenesis

    Min-Woo Lee;Justin I. Odegaard;Lata Mukundan;Yifu Qiu

  • Circadian gene Bmal1 regulates diurnal oscillations of Ly6C(hi) inflammatory monocytes.

    Khoa D. Nguyen;Sarah J. Fentress;Yifu Qiu;Karen Yun

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN).

    V J Hall;S Foulkes;A Charlett;A Atti

  • Control of Macrophage Activation and Function by PPARs

    Ajay Chawla

  • Oxidative metabolism and PGC-1 beta attenuate macrophage-mediated inflammation

    D Vats;L Mukundan;J I Odegaard;L Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Locksley
Richard M. Locksley University of California, San Francisco
Yu Huang
Yu Huang University of California, Los Angeles
Daehee Hwang
Daehee Hwang Seoul National University
David R. Greaves
David R. Greaves University of Oxford
Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Peter J. Turnbaugh
Peter J. Turnbaugh University of California, San Francisco
Peter Tontonoz
Peter Tontonoz University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew D. Patterson
Andrew D. Patterson Pennsylvania State University
Jeffery S. Cox
Jeffery S. Cox University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Harris
Robert A. Harris Indiana University

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