Viswanath Kurup, PhD              

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; professor, Pediatrics and Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin; research career scientist, VA Medical Center.

Division
Asthma, Allergy and Immunology

Research interests
Allergies, Infectious/immunologic diseases

Study interests
Antigen/allergen characterization, development of animal model of allergy, development of diagnostic assays, immune regulation in mold allergy, immunotherapy for allergic disease, novel vaccines.

Education
Doctorate, University of Delhi, India, 1967; fellowship, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1968–1970.

Honors
Fulbright Visiting Professor, Finland, 1984; United Nations Technical Consultant to India, 1990.

Representative publications

• Kurup VP, Mauze M, Choi H, Seymour BWP, Coffman RL. A Murine Model of Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis with Elevated Eosinophils and IgE. Journal of Immunology. 1992; 148:3783-3788.
• Mehlhop PD, van de Rijn M, Goldbergm AB, Brewer JP, Kurup VP, Martin TR, Oettgen HC. Allergen-induced Bronchial Hyperractivity and Eosinophilic Inflammation Occur in the Absence of IgE in a Mouse Model of Asthma. Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (USA) 1997; 94:1344-1349.
• Rathore VB, Johnson B, Fink JN, Kelly KJ, Greenberger PA, Kurup VP. T-cell Proliferation and Cytokine Secretion to T-cell Epitopes of Asp f 2 in ABPA Patients. Clinical Immunology. 2001; 100:228-235.
• Ford JG, Rennick D, Donaldson DD, Venkayya R, McArthur C, Hansell E, Kurup VP, Warnock M, Grunig G. IL-13 and IFN-g: Interactions in Lung Inflammation. Journal of Immunology. 2001; 167:1769-1777.
• Banerjee B, Kurup VP, Greenberger PA, Kelly KJ, Fink JN. C-terminal Cysteine Residues Determine the IgE Binding of Aspergillus Fumigatus Allergen Asp f 2. Journal of Immunology. 2002; 169:5137-5144.
• Kurup VP, Xia J-Q, Shen H-D, Rickaby DA, Henderson Jr JD, Fink JN, Chou H, Kelly KJ, Dawson CA. Alkaline Serine Proteinase from Aspergillus Fumigatus has Synergistic Effects on Asp-f-2-Induced Immune Response in Mice. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 2002; 129:129-137.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 384-2000
Fax: (414) 382-5374
E-mail: vkurup@mcw.edu