Blake Gurfein, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Prof WOS

Education
Sc.B, - Neuroscience, Brown University
Ph.D., - Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Postdoc, - Neuroimmunology, University of California San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • K01 Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health
  • 40 Under 40, Silicon Valley Business Journal
Websites
Publications

  1. Goldsobel AB, Prabhakar N, Gurfein BT. Prospective trial examining safety and efficacy of microcurrent stimulation for the treatment of sinus pain and congestion. Bioelectronic Medicine 2019. PMID: 32232107


  2. Gaynor JS, Hagberg S, Gurfein BT. Veterinary applications of pulsed electromagnetic field therapy. Research in veterinary science 2018. PMID: 29775839


  3. Gurfein BT, Hasdemir B, Milush JM, Touma C, Palme R, Nixon DF, Darcel N, Hecht FM, Bhargava A. Enriched environment and stress exposure influence splenic B lymphocyte composition. PloS one 2017. PMID: 28704473


  4. Muehsam D, Lutgendorf S, Mills PJ, Rickhi B, Chevalier G, Bat N, Chopra D, Gurfein B. The embodied mind: A review on functional genomic and neurological correlates of mind-body therapies. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2016. PMID: 28017838


  5. Prather AA, Gurfein B, Moran P, Daubenmier J, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Sinclair E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Hecht FM, Epel ES. Tired telomeres: Poor global sleep quality, perceived stress, and telomere length in immune cell subsets in obese men and women. Volume 47. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2014. PMID: 25535858


  6. . Mouse Stress Reduction Alters Splenic Immune Cell Composition and Enhances Influenza Vaccine Responses. 2014. PMID:


  7. Gurfein BT, Davidenko O, Premenko-Lanier M, Milush JM, Acree M, Dallman MF, Touma C, Palme R, York VA, Fromentin G, Darcel N, Nixon DF, Hecht FM. Environmental enrichment alters splenic immune cell composition and enhances secondary influenza vaccine responses in mice. Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2014. PMID: 24687160


  8. . The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction. 2012. PMID:


  9. . P01.43. The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction. 2012. PMID:


  10. Gurfein BT, Stamm AW, Bacchetti P, Dallman MF, Nadkarni NA, Milush JM, Touma C, Palme R, Di Borgo CP, Fromentin G, Lown-Hecht R, Konsman JP, Acree M, Premenko-Lanier M, Darcel N, Hecht FM, Nixon DF. The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction. Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2012. PMID: 22398685


  11. Zhang Y, Zhang J, Navrazhina K, Argaw AT, Zameer A, Gurfein BT, Brosnan CF, John GR. TGFbeta1 induces Jagged1 expression in astrocytes via ALK5 and Smad3 and regulates the balance between oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation and differentiation. Glia 2010. PMID: 20169621


  12. Zhang Y, Argaw AT, Gurfein BT, Zameer A, Snyder BJ, Ge C, Lu QR, Rowitch DH, Raine CS, Brosnan CF, John GR. Notch1 signaling plays a role in regulating precursor differentiation during CNS remyelination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009. PMID: 19855010


  13. Gurfein BT, Zhang Y, López CB, Argaw AT, Zameer A, Moran TM, John GR. IL-11 regulates autoimmune demyelination. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2009. PMID: 19734214


  14. Argaw AT, Gurfein BT, Zhang Y, Zameer A, John GR. VEGF-mediated disruption of endothelial CLN-5 promotes blood-brain barrier breakdown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009. PMID: 19174516