Pathology

Biography

Claudia Kappen received her doctorate from the University of Cologne, Germany, followed by postdoctoral training at Yale University. She since directed independent research laboratories at Mayo Clinic Arizona and University of Nebraska Medical Center, rising through the ranks to Full Professor, and currently holds the Peggy M. Pennington Cole Endowed Chair in Maternal Biology at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has 60 publications listed in PubMed, received the James G. Wilson Publication Award from the Teratology Society in 2009, co-edited a special issue "Neural Tube Defects" for the journal Birth Defects Research, and serves as Associate Editor for the journals Reproductive Toxicology and PLoS One.

Abstract

Abstract : Molecular pathology of diabetic embryopathy in mouse models