Seth Reighard

Seth D Reighard , MD,PHD

Research Assistant Professor

Education

MD: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2021

PhD: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2019 (Immunology)

B.S.: University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, 2010 (Microbiology, Chemistry)

Clinical Interests

Psychiatry

Behavioral Disorders

Specialities

Psychiatry

Research and Practice 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.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

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 , More Information

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 More Information

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 ) , More Information

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 More Information

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 ) , More Information

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 More Information

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 ) , More Information

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 More Information

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 More Information

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 More Information

Post Graduate Training and Education

2021-2025 Psychiatry Residency, University of Cincinnati, , Cincinnati, OH

2022-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, Wohleb Lab, University of Cincinnati, , Cincinnati, OH