Lab Members

Rowann Mostafa received a bachelor of science in molecular cell biology and physiology from California State University, Long Beach. Mostafa works on the identification of citrullinated cardiac-specific autoantigens that appear to be involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and can be detected in the sera of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Aneta Stachowich, PhD, is a visiting postdoctoral fellow from Poland investigating the role of protein arginine deiminases in the mechanisms underlying macrophage M1–M2 polarization. Her second project aims to investigate the cross-talk between fibroblasts and macrophages during tissue remodeling and fibrosis.