Inés Colmegna

Research Scientist, Rheumatology, MD

 

Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Division of   Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, McGill University
  • Scientist, Research Institute – McGill University Health Sciences. Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program. Centre for Translational Biology

 

Research Interests

  • Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
  • Inflammation

 

Dr. Colmegna received her MD from the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at CEMIC and rheumatology at the IREP, both of which are institutions affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires. She subsequently pursued a rheumatology postdoctoral fellowship at Louisiana State University (New Orleans, LA, USA) and an immunology postdoctoral fellowship at the Lowance Center for Human Immunology – Emory University (Atlanta, GA, USA). In 2010, Dr. Colmegna relocated to Canada as a clinician scientist in the Division of Rheumatology at McGill University. Between 2010 and 2022, she was funded by the Fonds de recherche Santé Québec (FRSQ) Chercheur Boursier program. Since 2022, she has been a clinician scientist, tenure track.

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Dr. Colmegna’s team studies mechanisms implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and interventions to reduce the risk of comorbidities in RA, with a particular focus on the role of stem and progenitor cells in RA and other autoimmune diseases. In addition, her group works on interventions to reduce the burden of comorbidities in RA (e.g. infections and cardiovascular disease). Dr. Colmegna’s work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Arthritis Society, and the Canadian Initiative for Outcomes in Rheumatology cAre (CIORA), a division of The Canadian Rheumatology Association.

Publications

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