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

Michael D. Celestin Jr PhD
Population Sciences
LSU Health - New Orleans
Jean Christopher Chamcheu PhD
Translational Oncology
University of Louisiana Monroe
Andrew G. Chapple PhD
Population Sciences
LSU Health - New Orleans
YiPing Chen PhD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
John Cole MD
Translational Oncology
Ochsner Health
Cathi Cox-Boniol
Population Sciences
Louisiana Tech University
Santosh D'Mello PhD
Translational Oncology
LSU Health - Shreveport
Srikanta Dash PhD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Heidi Davis, PhD
Population Sciences
Ochsner Health