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Seth D. Reighard, MD,PHD

Research Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • MD: University of Cincinnati
  • PhD: University of Cincinnati (Immunology)
  • B.S.: University of Pittsburgh (Microbiology, Chemistry)
Specialties

Psychiatry

Contact Information
Research Interests

Dr. Reighard studies the overlap between mental illness and the immune system. He is particularly interested in using preclinical models to elucidate the role of microglia in schizophrenia, with an ultimate goal to engineer therapeutic microglia as a novel treatment for refractory psychiatric disease.

Clinical Interests

Psychiatry

Behavioral Disorders

Peer Reviewed Publications

Vicetti Miguel R.D.; Reighard S.D.; Chavez J.M.; Rabe L.K.; Maryak S.A.; Wiesenfeld H.C.; Cherpes T.L. 12-01-2012. Transient Detection of Chlamydial-Specific Th1 Memory Cells in the Peripheral Circulation of Women w American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 68 6, 499-506

Reighard S.D.; Cranert S.A.; Rangel K.M.; Ali A.; Gyurova I.E.; de la Cruz-Lynch A.T.; Tuazon J.A.; Khodoun M.V.; Kottyan L.C.; Smith D.F.; Brunner H.I.; Waggoner S.N. 08-25-2020. Erratum: Therapeutic Targeting of Follicular T Cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Expressing Natur Cell Reports Medicine, 1 5,

Rajaram S.; Canaday L.M.; Ochayon D.E.; Rangel K.M.; Ali A.; Gyurova I.E.; Krishnamurthy D.; Fletcher J.S.; Reighard S.D.; Cox A.; Weirauch M.T.; Kottyan L.C.; Deshmukh H.; Zacharias W.J.; Borchers M.T.; Waggoner S.N. 06-16-2020. The Promise and Peril of Natural Killer Cell Therapies in Pulmonary Infection Immunity, 52 6, 887-889

Crotchett B.L.M.; Reighard S.D.; Nasrallah H.A. 06-01-2025. GABA dysfunction in schizophrenia: The GABAA receptor as a potential therapeutic target Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry, 12 ,

Reighard S.D.; Cranert S.A.; Rangel K.M.; Ali A.; Gyurova I.E.; de la Cruz-Lynch A.T.; Tuazon J.A.; Khodoun M.V.; Kottyan L.C.; Smith D.F.; Brunner H.I.; Waggoner S.N. 04-21-2020. Therapeutic Targeting of Follicular T Cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Expressing Natural Killer Cell Reports Medicine, 1 1,

Vicetti Miguel R.D.; Harvey S.A.K.; LaFramboise W.A.; Reighard S.D.; Matthews D.B.; Cherpes T.L. 03-13-2013. Human Female Genital Tract Infection by the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis E Plos One, 8 3,

Waggoner S.N.; Reighard S.D.; Gyurova I.E.; Cranert S.A.; Mahl S.E.; Karmele E.P.; McNally J.P.; Moran M.T.; Brooks T.R.; Yaqoob F.; Rydyznski C.E. 02-01-2016. Roles of natural killer cells in antiviral immunity Current Opinion in Virology, 16 , 15-23

Reighard S.D.; Krishnamurthy D.; Cevik H.; Ochayon D.E.; Ali A.; Seelamneni H.; Brunner H.I.; Waggoner S.N. 01-01-2021. Immunomodulatory effects of cytokine-induced expansion of cytotoxic lymphocytes in a mouse model of Cytotherapy, 23 1, 37-45

Stoner K.A.; Reighard S.D.; Miguel R.D.V.; Landsittel D.; Cosentino L.A.; Kant J.A.; Cherpes T.L. 01-01-2012. Recalcitrance of bacterial vaginosis among herpes-simplex-virus-type-2- seropositive women Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 38 1, 77-83

Reighard S.D.; Sweet R.L.; Vicetti Miguel C.; Vicetti Miguel R.D.; Chivukula M.; Krishnamurti U.; Cherpes T.L. 01-01-2011. Endometrial leukocyte subpopulations associated with Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 205 4, 324-324.e7