Katherine Gryzenia

Katherine Gryzenia received her Ph.D. in Basic Medical Sciences, specializing in Pharmacology, from the University of South Alabama and completed a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Her contributions to the field of steroid hormone receptor signaling include eight publications in peer-reviewed journals and three presentations at national meetings. Katherine has been a member of the American Association for Colleges of Pharmacy, The Endocrine Society, and The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. She has received a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Planning Grant from NASA and an Intramural Research Training Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Katherine has enjoyed teaching pharmacology in various educational programs since 2009, and she joined Walden University as a Contributing Faculty in the Master of Science in Nursing program in 2019.

Courses Taught

NURS 6521 - Advanced Pharmacology

NURS 6630 - Psychopharmacology

Education

PhD, University of South Alabama College of Medicine

BS, University of South Alabama

Publications

Kang, H., Sayner, S. L., Gross, K. L., Russell, L. C., Chinkers, M. (2001). Identification of amino acids in the tetratricopeptide repeat and C-terminal domains of protein phosphatase 5 involved in autoinhibition and lipid activation.. Biochemistry

Gross, K. L., Cioffi, E. A., Scammell, J. G. (2004). Increased activity of the calcineurin-nuclear factor of activated T cells pathway in squirrel monkey B-Lymphoblasts identified by PowerBlot.. In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal

Westberry, J. M., Sadosky, P. W., Hubler, T. R., Gross, K. L., Scammell, J. G. (2006). Glucocorticoid resistance in squirrel monkeys results from a combination of a transcriptionally incompetent glucocorticoid receptor and overexpression of the glucocorticoid receptor co-chaperone FKBP51.. The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology

Hevel, J. M., Stewart, J. A., Gross, K. L., Ayling, J. E. (2006). Can the DCoHalpha isozyme compensate in patients with 4a-hydroxy-tetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase/DCoH deficiency?. Molecular genetics and metabolism

Gross, K. L., Westberry, J. M., Hubler, T. R., Sadosky, P. W., Singh, R. J., Taylor, R. L., Scammell, J. G. (2008). Androgen resistance in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.).. Comparative medicine

Gross, K. L., Cidlowski, J. A. (2008). Tissue-specific glucocorticoid action: a family affair.. Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM

Gross, K. L., Lu, N. Z., Cidlowski, J. A. (2009). Molecular mechanisms regulating glucocorticoid sensitivity and resistance.. Molecular and cellular endocrinology

Gross, K. L., Oakley, R. H., Scoltock, A. B., Jewell, C. M., Cidlowski, J. A. (2011). Glucocorticoid receptor alpha isoform-selective regulation of antiapoptotic genes in osteosarcoma cells: a new mechanism for glucocorticoid resistance.. Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.)

Presentations

Gross, K. L., Gillespie, M. N., Ayling, J. E. (2000). Crystallography of dehydratase/DCoH, a potential target in lung disorders. University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Gross, K. L., Scammell, J. G. (2002). Constitutively active NFAT-1 in squirrel monkey lymphocytes. University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Gross, K. L., Westberry, J. M., Hubler, T. R., Scammell, J. G. (2006). Androgen insensitivity in squirrel monkeys. University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Gross, K. L., Cidlowski, J. A. (2008). Glucocorticoid receptor-alpha isoform-specific regulation of NFkappa-B. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences