Sentences with phrase «assistant member»
An "assistant member" refers to someone who holds a lower or supporting position within a group or organization. They help the main or senior members with their tasks and responsibilities. Full definition
Durham teaching assistant members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) will hold a second two - day strike on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 November over Durham Council's plans to cut their pay by up to 23 % - around # 5,000 a year.
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«Our data strongly suggest that KIF1Bβ, which is localized on chromosome 1p36, might be such a neuroblastoma tumor suppressor gene,» says principal investigator Susanne Schlisio at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet and Assistant Member at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Stockholm, Sweden.
In Durham's strike ballot, 84 per cent of ATL's teaching assistant members in the authority voted to strike against the county council's revised deal.
Durham teaching assistant members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) have rejected a proposed agreement from Durham County Council, after a long running dispute over loss of salary which would result in a move to term - time only contracts.
Andrea Eveland, Ph.D., assistant member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and her team identified a genetic mechanism that controls developmental traits related to grain production in cereals.
In addition to monitoring the response of injected melanoma tumors, we are also measuring the boost in the anti-tumor immune cells of patients after injection,» explained Amod A. Sarnaik, M.D., assistant member of Moffitt's Cutaneous Oncology Program.
«One promising strategy to reduce the number of people affected by pancreatic cancer is to identify and treat premalignant pancreatic lesions,» said first author Jennifer Permuth - Wey, Ph.D., M.S., assistant member in the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt.
Richard Marshall, ATL's organiser for Durham, said: «ATL teaching assistant members have rejected Durham Council's proposals until it comes up with a fairer offer.
«It's almost a childlike innocence — you ask questions that adults might never ask, because they have a background where the question is no longer appropriate,» says Harmit Singh Malik, an assistant member of the Seattle - based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's basic science division.
«Interleukins have important roles in regulating cell growth, cell death and in the activation of the immune system,» explained Matthew Schabath, Ph.D., assistant member of the Cancer Epidemiology Program at Moffitt.
«This study has changed our approach to developing a universal flu vaccine,» said corresponding author Maureen McGargill, Ph.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Immunology.
Moffitt Cancer Center, a leader in molecular cancer research, and a research team led by Jia Fang, Ph.D., assistant member of the Tumor Biology Department, has discovered a new way to control the activity of SETDB1, a protein that is often upregulated in cancer.
«Various injection therapies for melanoma have been examined over the past 40 years, but few have shown the promising results we are seeing with PV - 10,» said Shari Pilon - Thomas, Ph.D., assistant member of Moffitt's Immunology Program.
«The paradoxical activation of MAPK signaling was an unexpected observation that emerged as BRAF inhibitors were being developed,» said co-author Geoffrey T. Gibney, M.D., assistant member of the Chemical Biology and Molecular Medicine Program at Moffitt.
«These secondary cancers emerge because BRAF inhibitors can activate tumor growth pathways in cells with genetic changes,» explained co-author Keiran S. Smalley, Ph.D., assistant member of the Cancer Biology and Evolution Program at Moffitt.
«Paclitaxel is one of the preferred chemotherapies for use in breast cancer, and our findings indicate that anti-TIM-3 antibodies currently in clinical development should also be considered in this setting as a means to improve upon the immune - dependent response to chemotherapy,» explained Brian Ruffell, Ph.D., assistant member of Moffitt's Department of Immunology.
After allowing for normal or pre-cancerous tissues to grow, the researchers quantified the number of individual small hairpin RNAs in the animals, and used it as a measure of their relative importance to the growth process, Beronja, now an assistant member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, explains.
These models are desperately needed for learning more about Group 4 medulloblastoma biology and evaluating rational, molecularly targeted therapies to improve patient outcomes,» said Paul Northcott, Ph.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology.
Dr. Thinle Chodon was recruited in September 2013 as an Assistant Member and Associate Director of the Therapeutic Cell Production Facility (TCPF) at the Center For Immunotherapy (CFI).
«The authors» caffeine - mediated, one - pot synthesis method awakens the field to new possibilities for the synthesis of bio-compatible materials and will certainly stimulate exciting new applications,» says Daniel Heller, an assistant member in the molecular pharmacology program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, who was not involved in the research.
«Our analysis showed that using this approach, hospitalizations for the average patient fell to less than one every couple of years rather than four to six annually,» said lead author Jeremie Estepp, M.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Hematology.
«These results are an exciting early indication that this gene therapy is well tolerated and effective in infants as young as 2 months old with this devastating inherited immune disorder,» said Ewelina Mamcarz, M.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.
After completing a clinical residency at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint - Antoine in Paris, Dr. Sadelain carried out a postdoctoral fellowship with Richard Mulligan, Ph.D., at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining MSKCC in 1994 as an assistant member.
He is currently an Assistant Member at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
I did postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and at Scripps Clinic, and then worked at Scripps as an Assistant Member in the Department of Immunology.
Prior to joining Wistar, he was an Assistant Member at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa.
«This research provides the first major evidence supporting targeted use of antibacterial prophylaxis for at - risk pediatric ALL patients, particularly use of the broad - spectrum antibiotic levofloxacin,» said lead author Joshua Wolf, M.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.
A patient is pictured with senior author Sima Jeha, M.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Oncology and lead author Joshua Wolf, M.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.
«Earlier work revealed that two genes, Gfi1 and Gfi1b, cooperate with Myc to promote the development of Group 3 medulloblastoma,» said Paul Northcott, Ph.D., a study author and assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology.