Dr. Jesse Moreira is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Human Physiology at Boston University Sargent College. Their teaching and research focus on LGBTQIA2S+ equity and inclusion in STEM and physiology education. During the latter portion of their postdoctoral fellowship, they began an independent research program on LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion. He is currently assessing methods to redesign undergraduate and graduate physiology curricula to better educate students on the pathophysiology of marginalization-related psychosocial stress and disproportionate burden of CVDs in marginalized populations. He has been teaching since 2014 and is currently the instructor of record for cross listed undergraduate/graduate courses in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Neuroanatomy/Neurophysiology at Boston University. Ultimately, their goal is to reform and build equitable education in undergraduate and graduate STEM classrooms and shift academic culture and climate.
Dr. Moreira previously completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular medicine in the laboratories of Dr. Jessica Fetterman, Dr. Deepa Gopal, and Dr. Darrell Kotton at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Moreira has had a long-standing interest in cardiovascular pathophysiology research, and has built expertise in the areas of hypertension, heart failure, and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy. He is experienced with both invasive animal models of cardiovascular physiology and disease and human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Through research, he has gained technical ability in tissue histochemical stain techniques including immunofluorescence, multiplex staining, and RNAScope. Additionally, Dr Moreira has experience with ELISA, western blot, flow cytometry, mitochondrial respirometry, and invasive physiology including invasive aortic blood pressure recording and live drug responses. Dr. Moreira still actively participates in Dr. Fetterman's research on cardiac models of mitochondrial disease.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
Fostering inclusive and equitable academic spaces is of paramount importance to me. In addition to my biomedical research experiences, I walk the world as a gender non-binary queer person. Through the unique lens I possess, I have recently begun an independent research program that seeks to understand how academic spaces can become more inclusive to historically minoritized and marginalized groups, including LGBTQIA2S+ people and folks belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Through collaborations both at and outside of BU, I have begun research assessing how diverse curricula health content in premedical courses affects students subjective and objective understanding of population-specific disease epidemiology and abilities to design inclusive research studies considering these groups. I intend to continue to grow my research program on inclusive pre-medical health curricula, to foster community for those belonging to minoritized groups in the classroom and develop students into inclusive thinking scientists and clinicians. I am always looking for additional collaborators and educators who wish to help create equitable and inclusive spaces and curricula.
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Taweh O, Moreira JD. Proposed mechanisms of hypertension and risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in LGBT communities. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Sep 01; 325(3):H522-H528. PMID: 37477686; DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00346.2023;
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Moreira JD, Haack K, White V, Bates ML, Gopal DM, Roepke TA. Importance of survey demographic questions to foster inclusion in medicine and research and reduce health inequities for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Jun 01; 324(6):H856-H862.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37115629
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Moreira JD, Gower AC, Xue L, Alekseyev Y, Smith KK, Choi SH, Ayalon N, Farb MG, Tenan K, LeClerc A, Levy D, Benjamin EJ, Lenburg ME, Mitchell RN, Padera RF, Fetterman JL, Gopal DM. Systematic dissection, preservation, and multiomics in whole human and bovine hearts. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2023; 63:107495.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36334690; PMCID: PMC10031913; DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2022.107495;
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Moreira JD, Bates ML, Roepke TA. Challenges and inclusive practices for LGBTQIA2S+ scientists in the American Physiological Society. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2022 Jul 01; 323(1):H121-H124. PMID: 35687502; PMCID: PMC9236859; DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00234.2022;
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Moreira JD, Nist KM, Carmichael CY, Kuwabara JT, Wainford RD. Sensory Afferent Renal Nerve Activated Gai2 Subunit Proteins Mediate the Natriuretic, Sympathoinhibitory and Normotensive Responses to Peripheral Sodium Challenges. Front Physiol. 2021; 12:771167.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34916958; PMCID: PMC8669768; DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.771167;
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Puleo F, Kim K, Frame AA, Walsh KR, Ferdaus MZ, Moreira JD, Comsti E, Faudoa E, Nist KM, Abkin E, Wainford RD. Sympathetic Regulation of the NCC (Sodium Chloride Cotransporter) in Dahl Salt-Sensitive Hypertension. Hypertension. 2020 11; 76(5):1461-1469.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32981364; PMCID: PMC7727920; DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15928;
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Carmichael CY, Kuwabara JT, Pascale CL, Moreira JD, Mahne SE, Kapusta DR, Rosene DL, Williams JS, Cunningham JT, Wainford RD. Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Gai2 (Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Protein Alpha Inhibiting Activity Polypeptide 2) Protein-Mediated Neural Control of the Kidney and the Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure. Hypertension. 2020 04; 75(4):1002-1011.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32148128; PMCID: PMC7329357; DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13777;
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Moreira JD, Chaudhary P, Frame AA, Puleo F, Nist KM, Abkin EA, Moore TL, George JC, Wainford RD. Inhibition of microglial activation in rats attenuates paraventricular nucleus inflammation in Gai2 protein-dependent, salt-sensitive hypertension. Exp Physiol. 2019 12; 104(12):1892-1910.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31631436; PMCID: PMC6884700; DOI: 10.1113/EP087924;
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Kandarian SC, Nosacka RL, Delitto AE, Judge AR, Judge SM, Ganey JD, Moreira JD, Jackman RW. Tumour-derived leukaemia inhibitory factor is a major driver of cancer cachexia and morbidity in C26 tumour-bearing mice. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2018 Dec; 9(6):1109-1120. PMID: 30270531; PMCID: PMC6240747; DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12346;
This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown,
or last author.
| Year | Publications |
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| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 3 |
2021-2023 Boston University School of Medicine :
NHLBI T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Research
2021 Salem State University:
Charles Albert Read Trust Alumni Science Lecture
2020 American Heart Association:
Top Trainee Investigator Award Finalist
2020 American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions:
Invited Oral Presentation
2020 American Physiological Society:
Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award
2020 Experimental Biology:
Invited Oral Presentation
2019 American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions:
Invited Oral Presentation
2019 Experimental Biology:
Invited Oral Presentation
2018-2020 Boston University Sargent College:
Dean's Teaching Fellowship
2018 American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions:
Invited Oral Presentation
2017 Salem State University:
Magna Cum Laude
2017 Induction – Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2016 Induction – Sigma Xi Research Honor Society, North Shore MA Chapter
2015 Induction – Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society