Shannon Rose, PhD
Associate Professor
874 Union Ave
Room 203
Memphis, TN 38163
901.448.9808
srose37@uthsc.edu
Dr. Shannon Rose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of Tennessee (UT) Health Science Center’s College of Nursing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Rose joined the College of Nursing in July 2024. Prior to joining UT Health Science Center, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Rose completed her postdoctoral research at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute in Little Rock, Arkansas. She earned a PhD in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis in Cell Biology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas.
Dr. Rose's research program focuses on understanding the role of immune cell metabolism in health and disease in children. Specifically, she studies how changes in the bioenergetics of circulating immune cells are associated with inflammation and metabolic decline in diseases, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD), obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Rose is currently funded by The Brain Foundation to explore autoantibody and cytokine biomarker discovery in patients with autism spectrum disorder. She just completed a study funded by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation to use transcriptomics to identify blood-based biomarkers for ASD diagnostics and precision medicine prognostics. In addition, Dr. Rose has previously held extramural funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study immune cell metabolism in pediatric obesity. Dr. Rose has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and regularly presents her work at local, regional, national, and international conferences.