Sentences with phrase «infectious disease research in»

Tracey completed postdoctoral research with Dr. David Sherman at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle, WA.

The chief research collaborators are Alan A. Aderem of the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle, Garry P. Nolan of Stanford University, and Bruce A. Beutler, who helped co-found the project while at TSRI but is now at the University of Texas Southwestern.

A team led by parasitologist Stefan Kappe at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle in Washington gave a rodent version of this «genetically attenuated parasite,» or GAP, to mice and showed that they were completely protected when later infected with an unmodified — or wild - type — version of the same Plasmodium strain.

This work, published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, was carried out in collaboration with researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the Center for infectious disease research in Seattle and was partially funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the European Research Council (ERC), Swiss Vaccine Research Institute and the Fondazione Aldo e Cele Daccò.

Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.

«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.

Not exact matches

«We're in a serious jam,» says Gerry Wright, director of the Michael DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University.

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion for cancer and $ 3.6 billion for infectious diseases.

An original co-founder of MaRS, U of T has chosen the site for its renowned research teams working in drug discovery, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases and advanced computing.

However, the organization also called for more research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31

These babies are also vulnerable to the risk of infectious disease from bacterial and viral contamination of such milk, which was identified in a prior study by the same research team led by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

One of the infectious agents the research team studied was the organism that causes tuberculosis (TB)-- a disease that is a huge problem in many countries of the world and getting worse because of the development of antibiotic - resistant strains.

The public should demand that Big Pharma immediately disgorge some of their profits, stop charging Americans the highest prices in the world, and create a fund to pay for research on drugs that can curb the spread of infectious diseases.

A publicly owned drug research and production utility, operating at cost for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize research and production of low - revenue drugs like vaccines for Ebola, malaria, and other infectious diseases that are used once.

He outlined his vision for the University, which includes facilitating a vibrant intellectual climate that stimulates innovative research and community engagement, promotion of multidisciplinary research in infectious diseases, chronic diseases, maternal and child health policy, among others.

«You can't reverse that, it's too late,» said Gary Kobinger, the director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Laval University in Quebec City, who helped develop ZMapp.

«It started to become quite evident to me that a research career in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling would be a fairly perfect combination of my longstanding interests in math and biology and medicine, as well as my emerging interest in infectious disease transmission and public health more generally,» she says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would get $ 1.78 billion for its Ebola work in the United States and Africa, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) would receive $ 238 million for research that includes testing experimental Ebola vaccines.

The long - term persistence of CD8αα + T cells where initial infection occurs may explain why patients have asymptomatic recurrences of genital herpes because these cells constantly recognize and eliminate the virus, according to Jia Zhu, Ph.D., corresponding author, research assistant professor in Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington and an affiliate investigator in the Fred Hutch Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.

JoAnn Suzich, vice-president of infectious disease research at MedImmune in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is excited by the idea.

In the US, for example, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, is a hub for HIV research, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other diseaseIn the US, for example, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, is a hub for HIV research, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other diseasein Bethesda, Maryland, is a hub for HIV research, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other dresearch, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other dResearch Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other diseasein preference to other diseases.

Government agencies urged people to stockpile water and peanut butter and tuna fish in preparation for what Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the press would be «three years of a given hell....

The research, which appears today as an advance online publication in the journal Nature, should aid development of more personalized cancer immunotherapy and advance diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.

But across Europe, rising temperatures due to global warming will expose pets to infectious diseases spread by ticks, fleas and flies, warns new research published in a special issue of Veterinary Parasitology.

«Today we see more opportunity than ever to be gained from investing in vaccine research,» says Keith Gottesdiener, vice president for vaccine and infectious disease clinical research with Merck.

«The pause is welcome in the sense that hopefully it will relieve some of the immediate urgency in terms of trying to chart a course forward,» agrees Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, and is a member of the NSABB.

Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of «mad cow disease» or BSE, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, which has long remained a mystery.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

She started her graduate training with the goal of joining an international nonprofit organization to fight infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, and at first she found her research too descriptive.

They will have major applications in blood screening, bioterrorism defense, infectious - disease screening, and cancer research.

These results, along with imaging technologies that capture pathogens in the living host, form a «scaffold» for future research into Lyme disease, says Joseph Breen, bacteriology program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the work.

Meghan Duffy is a disease ecologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, especially in aquatic ecosystems.

- Lachlan Gray, deputy head of the HIV Neuropathogenesis Lab at the Burnet Institute and adjunct research fellow in the Department of Infectious Disease at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.

In South Africa, the fields of infectious disease, computing, astronomy, and hydrogen fuel cell technology have been some of the strongest fields in research and industrIn South Africa, the fields of infectious disease, computing, astronomy, and hydrogen fuel cell technology have been some of the strongest fields in research and industrin research and industry.

Egyptian mummies from prior and later periods showed no sign of the disease, according to the research in the October issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

By studying the literature, Franco has assessed techniques aimed at improved animal welfare in infectious disease and neurodegenerative disorder research.

Singapore — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance in Research and Technology Infectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore.

Research focused on the utilisation of viruses that infect and kill bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, in preventing infectious diseases has gained new traction after bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global problem.

««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»

Blood - sucking flies can act as «flying syringes» to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they spread to humans, according to research published in the journal eLife.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

NIAID leases chimpanzees for use in infectious disease research at other accredited facilities.»)

At the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, then at the University of California, Irvine, and since 2001 as director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Lipkin has developed groundbreaking techniques that have helped a new generation of disease detectives sleuth out the infectious roots of mystery ills, chronic disease, and neuropsychiatric disorders like autism and OCD.

Scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research recently uncovered a critical piece in the puzzle of how malaria parasites infect their host.

Genentech's research organization focuses its efforts on basic and applied science in Oncology, Immunology, Metabolism, Neuroscience, and Infectious Disease.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functionIn this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functionin the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

In research outlined in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter OlympicIn research outlined in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter Olympicin the Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter Olympics.

At the same time, the site's experts in infectious disease and public health review this content to correct and refine the automated classifications, says Clark Freifeld, a research software developer at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program.

This string of research experiences earned Grais a master's degree in public policy in 1997, a master's degree in science in 1999, and then a Ph.D. based on a mathematical forecast of travel - enhanced spread of infectious diseases in 2003.