Anil Mishra PhD

Dr. Anil Mishra, PhD is Professor of Medicine and Endowed Chair, Edward G. Schlieder Educational Foundation and Director of Tulane Eosinophilic Disorder Center in the Section of Pulmonary Diseases, Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA. Earlier, Dr. Mishra served as a faculty member at Allergy and Immunology Division, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH and Case Western Reserve University Medical College, OH before joining Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.

Dr. Mishra's most important contribution was to establish that eosin are the resident cell that home prenatally in the gastrointestinal tract (Mishra et al. J. Clin. Invest. 1999, 103, 1719-27) and the gastrointestinal tract (esophagus to colon) constitutively expresses certain eotaxin-1 (an eosinophil selective chemoattractant). Dr. Mishra developed a first murine model of asthma associated eosinophilic