Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Research: Neuroimmunology in Autoimmune, Infectious, and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Anwar, S., Lin, P. C. P., Pacheco, L., Imai, K., Tan, Z., Song, Z., Wakamatsu, Y., Minamiya, Y., Cheng, J., Ko, C. M., & Inoue, M. (2025). Decreased lymph node estrogen levels cause nonremitting progressive experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis disease. PNAS Nexus, 4(1), Article pgaf010. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf010

Anwar, S., Zhou, J., Kowalski, L., Saylor, J., Shukla, D., Boetel, K., Song, Z., Sharma, K., Cheng, J., & Inoue, M. (2025). Star-Shaped Glatiramer Acetate Mitigates Pulmonary Dysfunction and Brain Neuroinflammation in a Murine Model of Cryptococcus-Associated IRIS. Biomedicines, 13(11), Article 2835. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines13112835

White, Z., Cabrera, I., Mei, L., Clevenger, M., Ochoa-Raya, A., Kapustka, I., Dominguez, J. R., Zhou, J., Koster, K. P., Anwar, S., Wang, Q., Ng, C., Sagoshi, S., Matsuo, T., Jayawardena, D., Kim, S. H., Kageyama, T., Mitchell, B. J., Rivera, D., ... Sano, T. (2025). Gut inflammation promotes microbiota-specific CD4 T cell-mediated neuroinflammation. Nature, 643(8071), 509-518. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09120-w

Kawano, T., Zhou, J., Anwar, S., Salah, H., Dayal, A. H., Ishikawa, Y., Boetel, K., Takahashi, T., Sharma, K., & Inoue, M. (2023). T cell infiltration into the brain triggers pulmonary dysfunction in murine Cryptococcus-associated IRIS. Nature communications, 14(1), Article 3831. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39518-x

Khaw, Y. M., Anwar, S., Zhou, J., Kawano, T., Lin, P. C., Otero, A., Barakat, R., Drnevich, J., Takahashi, T., Ko, C. M. J., & Inoue, M. (2023). Estrogen receptor alpha signaling in dendritic cells modulates autoimmune disease phenotype in mice. EMBO Reports, 24(3), Article e54228. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202154228

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