Avery Zierk, MD
Instructor A of Pediatrics
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
2nd Floor Main Hospital
Philadelphoia, PA 19014
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
2nd Floor Main Hospital
Philadelphoia, PA 19014
Education:
BS (Chemistry)
College of Charleston, 2011.
MD
University of South Carolina, 2018.
Permanent linkBS (Chemistry)
College of Charleston, 2011.
MD
University of South Carolina, 2018.
Selected Publications
Zierk, A., Chavez-Valdez, R., Vaidya, D., Graham, E., Everett, A., Parkinson, C., Aziz, K., Northington, F.: Clinical Neonatal ICU Length of Stay Predictors for Very Low Birth Weight (VLBL) Infants. Poster- Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 2020.Zierk A, Beroukhim R.: Do Pediatric Specialists Recognize Low Parent Health Literacy? Poster Presentation- Discover USC Day 2017.
Heise, T., Kota, V., Brock, A., Morris, A.B., Rodriguez, R.M., Zierk, A.W., Howe, P.H. and Sommer, G: The La protein counteracts cisplatin-induced cell death by stimulating protein synthesis of anti-apoptotic factor Bcl2. Oncotarget 2016.
Sommer, G., Zierk, A. W., Fedarovich, A., Brock, A., Fedarovich, D., & Heise, T.: The RNA chaperon activity of the human La protein (LARP3). RNA & DISEASE 2015.
Kuehnert, J., Sommer, G., Zierk, A. W., Fedarovich, A., Brock, A., Fedarovich, D., & Heise, T.: Novel RNA chaperone domain of RNA-binding protein La is regulated by AKT phosphorylation. Nucleic acids research 2015.
Zierk A, Forconi M.: Functional Characterization of SdsA1, an alkylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Poster Presentation- INBRE Scientific Symposium, Columbia, South Carolina 2012.
Zierk, A.: Functional Characterization of SdsA1, an alkylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Poster presentation- College of Charleston School of Science and Mathematics Poster Day, Charleston, South Carolina 2011.