EYE AND GLAUCOMA RESEARCH (ISSN:2732-4818)

Biography:

Dr Joseph Prandota received his Doctor of Medical Sciences degree (1970) and PhD degree (1980) from Wroclaw Medical University, Poland. He worked as Assistant/Adjunct in Department of Pharmacology (1966-1975), Department of Pediatric Nephrology (1975-1977), the Associate Professor, Full Professor and Chief in Department of Pediatrics, J. Korczak Memorial Children’s Hospital in Wroclaw (1978-2002), and then in the Faculty of Dentistry, and as the Chair and Head of the Department of Social Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University (2002-2011). He was a Visiting Professor in Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology, School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany (September 1993; chairman dr Johannes Brodehl).

Research Interests:

Latent chronic T. gondii infection and its participation in development of molecular pathomechanisms of headaches, several neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases, including autism, inflammatory bowel disease, Lesniowski-Crohn disease, cryptogenic liver disease, steatohepatitis, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and proteinuria.