Sentences with phrase «immunology researcher»

Or that in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology researcher James E. Gern, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, noted that a growing number of studies suggest that kids growing up in a home with «furred animals» — whether it's a pet cat or dog, or on a farm and exposed to large animals — will have less risk of allergies and asthma?

Inflammation is most visible (and most beneficial) when it's helping to repair a wound or fight off an illness: «You've noticed your body's inflammatory response if you've ever had a fever or a sore throat with swollen glands,» says Timothy Denning, PhD, associate professor and immunology researcher at Georgia State University, or an infected cut that's become red and warm to the touch.

Georgia Tech chemistry and life sciences researcher M. G. Finn (l.) and UFMG parasitology and immunology researcher Alexandre Marques (r.) in Finn's lab at Georgia Tech.

An unexpected collaboration between bioinformatician Katherine Pollard (left) and immunology researcher Shomyseh Sanjabi (right) leads to the discovery of an early predictor of IBD.

Now, Jarjour and a team of immunology researchers at Ohio State and the University of Virginia (UVA) say they have some evidence to support that theory.

One of iCubed's most important roles is educating and training the next generation of vaccine and immunology researchers.

Progress towards the development of highly effective vaccines for malaria has been frustratingly slow, but a distinctive bright spot for malaria vaccine and immunology researchers is the availability of human experimental models of P. falciparum - infection and malaria immunity.

«The approval of a vaccine to treat cancer is a victory in the history of cancer therapy, and signals the beginning of a new era in cancer medicine,» said Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., executive director of the U.S. - based Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 that has provided decades of significant support to cancer immunology researchers around the world so that the development of cancer immunotherapies such as Dendreon's Provenge might one day be possible.

Not exact matches

In a new study published in Mucosal Immunology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) report that human breast milk serves as a reservoir for bio-molecules that help to resolve inflammation and combat infection.

Lead researcher Joan Cook - Mills, a professor of allergy - immunology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, described the findings as a «major advance in our understanding of how food allergy starts early in life».

Two others, who focus on cancer immunology, are due to arrive at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School this fall, and an infectious disease researcher and a specialist in biodiversity are due in 2018.

In Zika - infected mice, this betrayal appears to contribute to fetal abnormalities linked to the virus, researchers report online January 5 in Science Immunology.

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.

The researchers, reporting online March 5 in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, also say they found that an anti-inflammatory drug that is FDA - approved for rheumatoid arthritis and is believed to be safe for humans to take during pregnancy halted the brain injury in mouse offspring.

Happily, according to the researchers» report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, they were able not only to describe the new mutation, but also to successfully treat the patient with targeted therapy.

Ian Orme, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, recently conducted a study that has provided some important new clues, and suggestions for other researchers.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

Researchers of the report, which is published in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), examined 14 previously published studies to determine the effectiveness of yoga in the treatment of asthma.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

Brian F. Volkman, PhD, professor of biochemistry; and Mitchell H. Grayson, MD, associate professor of allergy and immunology; are the lead researchers on the study.

Researchers at A * STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new mechanism involving p53, the famous tumour suppressor, to fight against aggressive cancers.

Now, for the first time, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a molecular pathway that maintains the stability and function of Treg cells.

In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers have now found a new principle for how epigenetic changes can occur.

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.

But behind the scenes, a small cohort of researchers embarked on a years - long journey to understand why it hadn't worked when immunology suggested it should.

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 Diseases.

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.

A major new finding that will significantly advance efforts to create the world's first antibody - based AIDS vaccine was published today by researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

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.

Researchers report online today in ACS Nano that they've created an app that allows Google Glass wearers to snap pictures of common immunology - based diagnostic tests and immediately beam those images back to a central computer server.

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have identified what appear to be the initial steps leading to joint inflammation in a model of inflammatory arthritis.

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.

In the first large - scale analysis of negative citations, researchers found that 2.4 % of citations in a major immunology journal were critical, Nature reports.

«Our study suggests that although you need to have some level of IgE to trigger a food allergy response, you also have to produce MMC9 cells to get a severe response and anaphylaxis,» says Yui - Hsi Wang, PhD, lead investigator and a researcher in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's.

In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, the researchers identified the level of five of the most common food allergens which would cause a reaction in only ten percent of people who are sensitive to them.

Researchers from Department of Medicine 3 — Rheumatology and Immunology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen at Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU) have discovered that the body skilfully uses this process to extinguish inflammation.

«Immunotherapy is all about timing,» said Masoud H. Manjili, a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Lindskog is a researcher at Uppsala University who received her Ph.D. in pathology in the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University in 2013.

The molecule CD103 is key to the long - term residence of T cells in the skin and to their anti-tumor function, report a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center In the April 14, 2017 Science Immunology.

«The study demonstrates that controlled heating of one tumor can stimulate an immune response that attacks another tumor that has not had the heat treatment,» said Steve Fiering, PhD, Norris Cotton Cancer Center researcher and professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Genetics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

As part of the HeMiBio (Hepatic Microfluidic Bioreactor) project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Potsdam in collaboration with partners at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a microbioreactor in which liver cells can be kept alive and observed for a period of one month.

«The findings for this study are not only fascinating but potentially very important, because they point toward a new paradigm: different people react differently, even to the same foods,» says Eran Elinav (@EranElinav), a researcher in the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute and another of the study's senior authors.

Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD, research associate in the Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division, and the Institute for Immunology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, with postdoctoral researcher Matthew Hepworth, PhD, report in Nature that innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) directly limit the response by inflammatory T cells to commensal bacteria in the gut of mice.

Researchers led by a team at Duke University identified these immunologic variations by studying blood samples collected from people living with HIV by the NIAID - supported Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI).

In a review published June 1 in Trends in Immunology, researchers discuss how the omentum is also an important immune organ that serves as a first line of defense against toxins and infection — hardly what you'd expect from a layer of fat.

Within cancer immunology, researchers are also focusing on oncolytic viruses.

In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a key signal that drives the commitment of immature Tfh cells into fully functional Tfh cells and thus driving the step - by - step process that results in a precisely tailored and effective immune response.

That's the question posed by researchers in the journal BMC Immunology, who think that the vaccine might have offered partial protection against HIV.