Camille M. Fung, M.D.

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Camille Fung, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, School of Medicine. In addition to caring for sick newborns who require intensive care, she has a research interest in looking at the effects of perinatal insults such as intrauterine growth restriction on neural stem cell development. Many adult onset neuropsychiatric diseases are being recognized to have a fetal origin, therefore understanding how these insults affect the molecular makeup of the brain may pave the way for future therapy.

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Camille Fung's research focuses on how gestational insults such as intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) affects neural progenitor cell (NPC) biology to cause an altered cell type composition in the neonatal and adult brain. Using a nestin-GFP transgenic reporter mouse, she is delineating the time course of NPC proliferation and differentiation in the hippocampal dentate gyrus after IUGR as well as investigating the mechanisms responsible for altered cell fate. Understanding the mechanism(s) behind altered NPC fate may provide a means for future therapeutic interventions to ameliorate decreased neuron number in the IUGR brain. Many adult onset neuropsychiatric diseases are being recognized to have a fetal origin, therefore understanding how these insults affect the molecular makeup of the brain may pave the way for future therapy.

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