Sentences with phrase «biology at the medical school»

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She is also the director of mind / body services at Boston IVF, associate professor, part time of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, and senior psychologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

My camp name is Tank and I am studying human biology at BYUI to hopefully go to medical school.

For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.

Reasoning that boosting the clock may be beneficial, Zheng «Jake» Chen, Ph.D., the study's senior author and assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, launched a search for a clock amplitude - enhancing small molecule.

Lead author Yarden Katz, a fellow at the center and in the department of systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says they were interested in examining the relationship between NIH funding and metrics widely used to indicate scientific quality and determine career advancement, such as publication, citation, and patent counts.

During his doctoral work in genetics and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Munoz - Sanjuan grew «disillusioned about the dependency on peer review to make a living [in academic science], and universities» lack of appreciation for teaching excellence when evaluating for a tenure position.

«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.

«The gene has been cloned, and we know it interferes with the production of toxic amyloid fragments,» says Ralph Nixon, a professor of psychiatry and cell biology at New York University School of Medicine and a past chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association.

«It's good to build on our previous research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Working in the laboratory of Heather A. Hundley, corresponding author on the paper and an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the IU School of Medicine's Medical Sciences Program at Bloomington, Washburn and undergraduate Medical Sciences program student Emily Wheeler collaborated with the team from UCSD to show that the region of ADR - 1 protein that binds to target mRNAs in C. elegans is also required for regulating editing.

The research, which was led by Yanming Wang, a Penn State University associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Denisa Wagner, senior author with decades of research on thrombosis at the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard University Medical School, will be published in in the Online Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week ending 10 May 2013.

Mary Ellen Lane, associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, says that the anxieties she hears from current Ph.D. students are similar to the concerns she and her peers had as cell biology doctoral students in the late 80s and early 90s.

Pattnaik's co-authors on the glycosylation research were Arun S. Annamalai, Aryamav Pattnaik and Bikash R. Sahoo, graduate research assistants in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; assistant professor Satish Kumar Natarajan and post-doctoral researcher Ezhumalai Muthukrishnan from the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences; David Steffen, a professor with the Veterinary Diagnostic Center; assistant professor Hiep Vu from the Department of Animal Science; Gustavo Delhon, director of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Fernando Osorio, professor with the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Thomas M. Petro, oral biology professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and Shi - hua Xiang, assistant professor with the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

A wide variety of conditions that affect human adults, with the notable exception of cancer and infections, could be aided if we could stimulate regeneration, argues Mark T. Keating, a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School.

A native of Long Island, New York, he received his Ph.D. degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University in 1969, and then did postdoctoral research at Vanderbilt Medical School before joining the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in 1972.

Dr. Stripecke is currently an associate professor in the Department of Hematology at the Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany, and heads the Regenerative Immune Therapies Applied laboratory within the REgenerative BIology and Reconstructive THerapy (REBIRTH) Cluster of Excellence.

So most people who want to become doctors are told by the guidance counselors at the age 16 to choose three sciences, that this maximizes your chances and most medical schools in Britain will insist at least on biology and chemistry as two of those A-levels.

Eggan has been working with Steve McCarroll, associate professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of genetics at the Stanley Center, to study how genes shape the biology of neurons, which can be derived from these stem cells.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.

Nor was it his postdoc years at Harvard Medical School, doing molecular biology research that led to three papers in Science (here, here, and here).

«The collaborations that the Wyss Institute enables and nurtures between disparate fields, like mechanical engineering and molecular biology, foster new approaches to old problems that can lead to truly paradigm - shifting results,» says Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who is also a Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.

He has held positions as principal scientist in the insulin research group at Novo Nordisk, as a visiting scientist at the Joslin Diabetes Center, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and as head of diabetes biology at Novo Nordisk.

If the data occasionally seem inconsistent — 29,000 equals 15 %, for example, while 25,000 is 20 % — that should be forgiven, since the data come from different sources and the available data aren't that good overall, as Jessica Polka, a postdoc in cell biology at Harvard Medical School, acknowledges in her introduction.

Sequencing the whole genome of a prostate tumor, says co-author Levi Garraway, a physician and biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, allowed the researchers to see «biology that would have been invisible with any other method.»

John received his bachelor science degree in biology from Yale in 1981 after which he worked for several years in a laboratory at Harvard Medical School before embarking on his career as a science writer.

Several years ago, I was fortunate to be involved in the founding of the new department of systems biology at Harvard Medical School and the systems biology graduate program.

Recognising a need to better understand the biology that produces ASD symptoms, scientists at Duke - NUS Medical School (Duke - NUS) and the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore, have teamed up and identified a novel mechanism that potentially links abnormal brain development to the cause of ASDs.

Pamela A. Silver is professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School and the Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

«I work on understanding how cells «eat» using machinery based on vesicular carriers, and all my life I've dreamed of seeing this in a live organism,» Tomas Kirchhausen, Ph.D., a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School and one of the paper's authors, said in a statement on Thursday.

After graduating with honors in biology from Harvard University in 1968, Andrew D. Gill, MD, went on to medical school at Case Western Reserve University.

«This adds a new dimension to head and neck cancer biology that was not on anyone's radar screen before,» said Levi A. Garraway, a senior associate member of the Broad Institute, an assistant professor at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and a senior author of one of the Science papers.

Biologist Job Dekker, at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and his colleagues have developed several molecular biology - based techniques to identify neighbouring sections of chromatin 200,000 to one million bases long.

After two years of undergraduate coursework in biology, she applied to medical school at AUB, and began her medical training in the fall of 1975.

She has extensive experience in the fields of metabolic disorders and cancer biology through her work at Connexios Life Sciences, the New York University School of Medicine, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Amy J. Wagers, Ph.D., is an investigator in the section on islet cell and regenerative biology at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mass., and an associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at the Harvard Medical School..

Dr. Miller has a background in protein biochemistry, cellular immunology, cardiac physiology, molecular immunology and molecular biology, which he developed working for over a decade in laboratories in the Medical School, Department of Chemistry, and the Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA.

Young, who has been at Texas A&M since 1978, earned his doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and did his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School.

She is the executive director of the Domar Centers for Mind / Body Health and an associate professor, part - time, of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.

In real life, «there is no normal barometer for sexual activity,» says Jan Shifren, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

«We think the rate is going to go up even more,» says Hope Ricciotti, MD, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

: Breaking the Rules Won't Break Your Health; executive director, Domar Center for Mind / Body Health; director, Mind / Body Services at Boston IVF; assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology, Harvard Medical School; senior staff psychologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

By day, David works in the communications office at Harvard Medical School, banging out press releases on molecular biology, while at night, typically between the hours of 9 and 11, he channels his inner demons into short fiction.

«You can't assume that romance will take care of itself or last forever — you have to work on it,» says Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD, psychologist and chief of behavioral medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and professor of reproductive biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. Morrow was MGH Rappaport Neuroscience Scholar and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School prior to coming to Brown University as assistant professor, department of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry.

Myers earned his undergraduate degree in biology at Stetson University and his medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine.