Augusto Ochoa MD

Augusto Ochoa MD

Director, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center

Degrees

M.D. - 1982
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Bio

Post-doctoral Fellowship - Immunology, Immunobiology Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1982 - 1986
Assistant Professor, Immunobiology Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1986-1989
Head, Immunotherapy Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, MD, 1989 - 1996
Head, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, MD, 1996-1997
Residency in Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 1997- 2000
Fellowship - Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, 2001-2003

Board Certification:
Pediatrics, 2000

Augusto Ochoa, MD, earned his MD from the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia in 1982.  That year, he started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Immunobiology Research Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he became an Assistant Professor in 1986.  He served as Head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1989 to 1996, and Head of the NCI Signal Transduction Laboratory from 1996 to 1997.  At the LSU Health Sciences Center, he is Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry, and Director of the Cancer Center.  At Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, he is a practicing physician specializing in the field of Allergy/Immunology. His research interests include T-cell function, cytokine production, macrophage T-cell interaction, immune regulation, immune dysfunction and disease, as well as tumor immunology.

Research Interests

T cell function
Cytokine production
Macrophage-T cell interaction
Immune regulation
Immune dysfunction and disease
Tumor Immunology

PubMed

LCRC Faculty

Levon Bostanian PhD
Therapeutics & Diagnostics
Xavier University
J. Quincy Brown PhD
Therapeutics & Diagnostics
Tulane University School of Medicine
Justin Brown PhD
Population Sciences
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Bridgette Collins-Burow MD PhD
Therapeutics & Diagnostics
Tulane University School of Medicine
Matthew E. Burow PhD
Tumor Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Kevin Callison PhD
Population Sciences
Tulane University School of Medicine
Jennifer Cameron PhD
Genes & Environment
LSU Health - New Orleans
Tara Castellano, MD
Therapeutics & Diagnostics
LSU Health - New Orleans
Michael D. Celestin Jr PhD
Population Sciences
LSU Health - New Orleans