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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — May 1, 2012 — Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD, who directs virology and immunology research at the Gladstone Institutes, has been inducted as president of the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

Dr. Patrick Hanley, assistant research professor of pediatrics in the Center for Cancer and Immunology research at the Children's Research Institute on the new developments in the design and manufacturing for T cell therapies.

«85 % of these genes are required for nephrocyte function, suggesting that a majority of human genes known to be associated with NS play conserved roles in renal function from flies to humans,» said Zhe Han, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and Associate Professor at the Centre for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children's National.

Under Dr. Greene's direction, virology and immunology research at Gladstone takes a multidisciplinary approach to fighting HIV / AIDS — which remains a global scourge, with more than 30 million people worldwide living with HIV.

Under Dr. Greene's direction, virology and immunology research at Gladstone takes a multidisciplinary approach to fighting HIV / AIDS.

«We've known about these cells blocking immune response for a decade, but haven't been able to shut them down for lack of an identified target,» said the paper's senior author, Larry Kwak, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Lymphoma / Myeloma and director of the Center for Cancer Immunology Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

«Current treatments, which involve a complex cocktail of antiretroviral (ARV) medications, are fine - tuned to target and destroy active, replicating HIV — but they can't touch the latent virus,» explained Dr. Greene, director of virology and immunology research at Gladstone and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.

Not exact matches

He has worked as a Research Assistant at The Commonwealth Medical College, where he studied osteoporosis, and as a Research Associate at an immunology lab, HUMIGEN, where he worked on inflammatory bowel diseases.

«Solid food introduction from 4 months of age, including a wide range of healthy foods and potential food allergens such as eggs, peanuts, and fish, is our current best advice,» says Debbie Palmer, head of the Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research team at the University of Western Australia, who has published extensively on the topic.

In the 1980s, Dr. Ranjit Chandra at Memorial University in St. John's, Canada was already well - known for his research in the fields of pediatrics and immunology.

The research, which came out of the Department of Immunology at Monash University in Australia, put three groups of mice and their babies to the test.

But once they got wind of his expertise — he had done postdocs in immunology and receptor signaling at Vanderbilt University and at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, respectively — «they changed the job description a bit and made the offer to me to expand the position to manage the research building.»

Leaders from several of the main institutes at this biotechnology hotspot described research highlights in fields spanning neuroscience, agriculture and immunology.

Read about the innovative research being conducted at the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology of the Second Military Hospital in China.

Her work in protein research at Hunter and her grandmother's recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer sparked an interest in cancer biology and immunology, but Rezende is eager to sample other fields.

The researchers and specialists from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology of MedUni Vienna are now conducting a new research project to identify the whole spectrum of pathogens in ticks and to follow the diagnosis and treatment of affected patients.

She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.

The company employs five postdocs at the company's immunology and microbiology research labs located offsite at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.

The initiative is designed to stimulate collaborative research at the interface of computing and the sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, materials science, immunology, and ecology.

Tobias Polte and his team from the Department of Environmental Immunology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) collaborated with Jan Simon and his colleagues from the Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the University of Leipzig and have recently been successful in discovering a molecule that plays a significant role in the development of allergic airway inflammation — as demonstrated in their recent publication in Nature Communications.

I was in graduate school doing research in immunology at Tufts University in Boston.

A new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) looks at the research and answers the question.

«We hypothesized that virus - like DNA sequences inherent in our own genomes or the RNA transcripts they produce might be driving the production of interferon and contributing to disease,» said Dr. Crow, chair, Department of Medicine, and Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research at HSS.

«What we want this technology to achieve is confidence to switch to single embryo transfers instead of the practice of transferring multiple embryos without [an accompanying] reduction in pregnancy rate,» study co-authors Gayle Jones and David Cram, senior research scientists in immunology and stem cells at Monash University in Australia, wrote in an e-mail.

New research by a team of investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) directed by Xue - Zhong Yu, M.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota, demonstrates that one particular family of microRNAs (miRs), called miR -17-92, is responsible for the T - cell and B - cell pathogenicity that causes GVHD.

Allison, chair of the immunology department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and executive director of its research center on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunotherapy.

«This research took place at the intersection of microbiology, immunology and genetics, which is illustrative of the complex and synergistic ways in which multiple organs and organ systems operate in the body.»

After I finished my Ph.D. in immunology at Queen's University, if you had asked where I expected to be in 2004, I likely would have answered academic or biotechnology industry research.

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver DResearch, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.

«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 research, published last month in PNAS, was led by Prof. Udi Qimron of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and conducted primarily by TAU researcher Shahar Molshanski - Mor.

He joined the lab of Erwin Gelfand at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (now National Jewish Health) to do research on T - cell activation, the subject of his Ph.D. research.

A team of scientists at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of NIH, created VRC07 - αCD3 under the leadership of VRC Director John R. Mascola, M.D.; former VRC Director Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.; and Richard A. Koup, M.D., VRC deputy director and chief of its immunology laboratory.

A group of researchers at Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences jointly clarified the mechanism for inducing germinal - center B cells» differentiation into memory B cells, immune cells that remember antigens, at the molecular level.

Medical researchers at the Centre for Personalised Immunology, based at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), sequenced the genes of a young girl who suffered a stroke when she was four as a result of her lupus.

«This means that the epigenetic modifications are likely not caused by substances in the tobacco, but by the hundreds of different elements that are formed when the tobacco is burnt,» says Åsa Johansson, researcher at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University and Uppsala Clinical Research Center, who has led the study.

And at the Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, Frazer adds, «We take the belief that, at whatever level we recruit, we need to provide a sufficient startup package to ensure that their research productivity is not compromised by the move to ourResearch, Frazer adds, «We take the belief that, at whatever level we recruit, we need to provide a sufficient startup package to ensure that their research productivity is not compromised by the move to ourresearch productivity is not compromised by the move to our center.

«The fundamental «killing units» of CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues are other infected cells, not the free virus,» says co-first author Gilad Doitsh, PhD, a staff research investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.

Lead author Elizabeth Egan, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard Chan and instructor in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, and colleagues developed a new technique to tap into a relatively unexplored area — identifying characteristics of a host red blood cell that make it susceptible to the parasites.

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.

Asst Prof Lin, together with Dr Wang Jigang, who was formerly with the NUS Department of Biological Sciences and now with the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research & Technology, Associate Professor Kevin Tan from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and their research team, discovered over 120 protein targets of artemisinin, and the mechanism that activates its deadly killingResearch & Technology, Associate Professor Kevin Tan from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and their research team, discovered over 120 protein targets of artemisinin, and the mechanism that activates its deadly killingresearch team, discovered over 120 protein targets of artemisinin, and the mechanism that activates its deadly killing effect.

After finishing her Ph.D. in immunology at Yale, Lynn Hannum «wanted out of the lab» so she could explore «other options besides research.»

Mandelboim is a professor and researcher at the Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research at IMRIC — the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada, in the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine.

He did a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular immunology at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif..

Prof. Udi Qimron of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine led the research team, which also included Dr. Ido Yosef, Dr. Moran Goren, Rea Globus and Shahar Molshanski, all of Prof. Qimron's lab.

He is the Harder Family Chair for Cancer Research, Member and Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, at the Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center.

«These results suggest that inflammation has a causal role in the pathogenesis of acute Lyme neuroborreliosis,» explained Mario T. Philipp, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and chair of the Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology at Tulane National Primate Research Center (Covington, LA).

«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.

Dr. Abbas received his MBBS (M.D. equivalent) in India, completed training in pathology at Harvard University, and then joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he became professor of pathology and head of the Immunology Research Division.

Don Foster, head of research in immunology at Novo Nordisk's R&D center in Seattle, says working with colleagues across cultures — and continents — is a very effective way to get scientists thinking outside of the box.