Dr. Antoni Ribas is the director of the Tumor
Immunology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the chair of the Melanoma Committee at SWOG.
He is the Program Director of an NIH Funded Autoimmune Center of Excellence at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Director of the Masters in Medical Sciences in
Immunology Program at Harvard Medical School.
She is a member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Leader of the Cancer
Immunology Program at the Dana - Farber / Harvard Cancer Center.
From Yale, Sasha went on to take a position at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he would stay for 16 years, before moving to New York first as a member of
the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and subsequently assuming his current role as the chair of
the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and director of the Ludwig Center at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
«Our research shows that the protein GSK3 plays a crucial role in helping B cells meet the energy needs of their distinct states,» says Robert Rickert, Ph.D., director of the Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer
Immunology Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP).
«This pathway is very important in balancing immunity against pathogens and tolerance against self,» says Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC, co-leader of the Cancer
Immunology Program at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and senior author for this study.
In 2005, Dr. Wherry was appointed assistant professor in
the immunology program at The Wistar Institute before joining the Perelman School of Medicine in 2010.
«Pancreatic cancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer
Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone.
«We had a hypothesis about how these treatments would work together, and when we did biopsies of patients» tumors we found that they were cooperating in just the way we thought they would,» says lead author Antoni Ribas, director of
the Immunology Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
«What he showed us is turning the immune system on isn't enough; the crucial step is to make sure it doesn't turn itself off,» says Antoni Ribas, director of the tumor
immunology program at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer
Immunology Program at UPCI.
Not exact matches
She was also professor of medicine
at Harvard Medical School, where she headed one of the world's premier
immunology programs.
At EMD Serono, he was Senior Vice President and Global Senior Scientific Advisor in
Immunology and Immuno - Oncology, facilitating major academic center alliances and running the CAR T - cell
program in partnership with Intrexon.
«The body identifies the allergen as an invader and to protect itself, creates antibodies called immunoglobulin E, or IgE,» said Dr. Anita Gewurz, director of the Allergy /
Immunology Training
Program of Rush Medical College and Hospital, and an allergist
at Rush - Presbyterian - St.
Todd Green, MD, FAAAI, is an allergist / immunologist in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and
Immunology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Allergy /
Immunology Fellowship
Program, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department of microbiology and
immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership
program for women in academic medicine)
at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.
For instance, Curtis Suttle, professor of earth and ocean sciences, microbiology and
immunology, and botany, plus associate dean of science
at The University of British Columbia, says, «Find an M.S.
program that is really geared toward a profession.»
I interviewed
at a number of the top clinical pathology residency
programs and had already decided to pursue the one that had the most strength in
immunology, and autoimmunity in particular, when an unexpected opportunity arose.
First author Kim Martinod, a graduate student in the
Immunology Graduate
Program at the Harvard University Medical School, found that, in response to vein constriction, these «rescued» mice now could function normally, forming clots as efficiently as mice with a functioning Pad4 gene, demonstrating that the Pad4 gene did produce a functioning PAD4 enzyme in these white blood cells to regulate blood clotting.
«Dendritic cells are essential for prompting the immune response against malignant cells and for driving the clinical success of cancer immunotherapy, but their function is often defective in cancer patients,» said Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., Christopher M. Davis Professor and
program leader of the Immunology, Microenvironment & Metastasis Program at
program leader of the
Immunology, Microenvironment & Metastasis
Program at
Program at Wistar.
In his day job,
at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Allison serves as chair of the
immunology department, deputy director of the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers and executive director of the immunotherapy division of the Moon Shots
Program, a multidisciplinary effort tackling cancer mortality.
At least one institution — Georgetown University — offers a master's degree
program that combines policy and advocacy with scientific training in microbiology and
immunology.
After graduating I served as assistant coordinator of Meharry's Health Careers Opportunity
Program before beginning my postdoctoral research fellow position in the department of pathology
at HMS where I conducted basic cell biology and
immunology research.
«By simply watching cells grow, we were able to characterize several differences between bacteria that are killed quickly and those that respond slowly to antibiotics,» said Aldridge, who serves as faculty in the
Immunology and Molecular Microbiology
programs at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
at Tufts.
This new approach «represents an important advancement,» said Felicia Goodrum Sterling, the director of the graduate
program in
immunology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, who was not involved in the research.
PHILADELPHIA --(July 11, 2017)-- Researchers
at The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research in the fields of cancer,
immunology and infectious diseases, with collaborators
at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center and Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: SNDX) announce the results of a preclinical study demonstrating that entinostat, Syndax's oral, Class - I histone deacetylase inhibitor, enhances the antitumor effect of PD - 1 (
programmed death receptor - 1) blockade through the inhibition of myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs).
She then joined the Medical Scientist Training
Program (MSTP)
at Baylor College of Medicine, pursuing graduate work in
immunology and cell biology.
«We have experiments in mice that show that the combined use of PD - 1 antibody and poly - IC is synergistic for the recognition of tumors and an antitumor response mediated by T - cells,» says Dr. Esteban Celis, co-leader of the Cancer
Immunology, Inflammation and Tolerance
program at the Georgia Cancer Center
at Augusta University.
«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology &
Immunology, and Associate Director, Center for Human
Immunology and Immunotherapy
Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the Cell paper.
Research in the
Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis
program is aimed
at 1) merging basic mechanistic understanding of multidisciplinary pathways of host - tumor interactions and metastatic dissemination with novel translational opportunities for diseases diagnosis and immunotherapy, as well as 2) investigating mechanisms regulating immune responses in cancer and their potential therapeutic manipulation.
Much of Rudensky's career unfolded
at Sloan - Kettering Institute of the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he arrived in 2008 and is currently chair of the
immunology program and director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy.
He is also an associate member of the Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a member of the Graduate
Programs in Biophysics and
Immunology at Harvard University.
Also study authors were Yi Ding of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
at the University of Rochester Medical Center; Oliver J. Harrison of the Mucosal
Immunology Section in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in Bethesda, Maryland; and Yasmine Belkaid of the NIAID Microbiome
Program.
He founded the Immune Cell Biology
Program and was head of the Department of
Immunology at the Naval Medical Research Institute from 1990 to 1995.
Littman is the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular
Immunology, a professor of pathology and microbiology, and a faculty member in the Molecular Pathogenesis
program in the Skirball Institute for Biomedical Research
at the New York University School of Medicine in New York, NY.
From January 1991 to August 2001, Dr. Paya was Professor of Medicine,
Immunology, and Pathology, and Vice Dean of the Clinical Investigation
Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Sanfilippo received his BS and MS degrees in physics from Penn, his MD and PhD in
immunology as an NIH Medical Scientist Training
Program Fellow
at Duke, and Pathology residency training
at Duke, with Boards in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and Immunopathology.
«His arrival
at Chicago will bring new strengths to the department of pathology and should also support our established
programs in transplant
immunology and cancer biology.
Dr. Lieping Chen currently serves as the United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research, Professor of Immunobiology, Dermatology and Medical Oncology
at Yale School of Medicine and co-Director of the Cancer
Immunology Program of Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, CT..
The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program supports qualified young scientists
at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in fundamental
immunology or cancer
immunology.
The feasibility of this
program, both
at the research and clinical levels, require multiple know - how (molecular biology,
immunology, oncology, epidemiology, clinical diagnosis..)
The Department for Infectious Disease
Immunology at SSI is a leading partner in European and North American vaccine collaborations e.g. EDCTP, EU Framework
programs, AERAS and the Gates Foundation.
She has a Ph.D. in
immunology from the University of Washington, an M.A. in journalism and an advanced certificate from the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting
Program at New York University.
In addition to Miller, Hoffman, and Matthias Christen, the other scientists on this project were Hemantha Kulasekara of the UW Department of
Immunology; Beat Christen of the Department of Developmental Biology
at Stanford University; Bridget Kulasekara of the UW Molecular Cell Biology
Program, and Luke Hoffman of the UW Department of Pediatrics.
She is the Clinical Nutritionist for Special
Immunology Services
at Mercy Hospital, Miami and the wellness consultant and on the board of The Lower East Side Girls Club in New York City where she is currently developing
programs for their Wellness Institute.
He did undergraduate work in Biomedical Sciences
at Texas A&M University and completed his veterinary training and PhD in
Immunology through the Veterinary Medical Scientist Training
Program at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a residency in Veterinary Clinical Pathology
at Colorado State University and a post-doctoral fellowship
at the National Jewish Center for
Immunology and Respiratory Medicine.