Sentences with phrase «medicine research group»

Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University

According to senior co-author Professor Stephen Hyde from the Gene Medicine Research Group at the University of Oxford, «Stabilisation of lung disease in itself is a worthwhile goal.

These and other questions are being studied by Canadian researchers with the Ethics in Military Medicine Research Group, led by University of Montreal bioethicist Bryn Williams - Jones with colleagues at McGill and McMaster universities.

Not exact matches

Collins called the future group of participating volunteers «unique and transformative» for precision - medicine research.

TORONTO, September 3, 2015 — MaRS Discovery District today announced new tenants in its West Tower, including cutting - edge research groups with a focus on precision medicine and rapidly growing ventures such as Synaptive Medical, a leader in neuro - imaging, and LEAGUE, a new personal health platform.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington - based group that promotes low - fat, vegetarian diets and opposes what it deems inhumane experiments on animals and humans, acknowledges that it has conducted no independent research.

All existing research on women in medicine was reviewed for the report, and the group concludes that giving career guidance and mentoring, providing support for carers and offering «taster» sessions to those who have taken a career break will help improve the future for female doctors.

Dr Frances Flinter (Chair), Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Guy's Hospital, London & Chair of the Human Genetics Commission working group to develop a common framework of principles for direct genetic tests; Dr Richard Durbin, Co-Chair of the 1000 Genomes Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton; Dr Barbara Prainsack, Senior Lecturer Medicine, Science & Society, Kings College, London; Prof. Martin Richards, Emeritus Professor of Family Research, University of Cambridge.

In results to be published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine, the research team shows that ongoing pregnancy rates and live births were equivalent in a group of IVF women implanted with frozen embryos compared with fresh embryos.

Most groups have focused on detecting proteins released from dying brain cells, but those proteins are not always abundant after injury and often require exotic or proprietary antibodies to measure, said study corresponding author Adam Chodobski, associate professor (research) of emergency medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

«The personal liberty and autonomy of research contrasts with a much more routine working life in clinical medicine,» agrees Marcus Möller, who leads a research group in the Institute of Anatomy at Heidelberg University.

The idea to specifically study this group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, which found that among patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent of their cancer cells showed the longest survival and disease control.

Together with a research group led by Dr. Ari Waisman, the head of the Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University Medical Center in Mainz, Korn and his team have found an explanation for this phenomenon.

A Paris - based research group, headed up by Luc Douay, professor of hematology at University Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine, has already had some success.

Also at the NUS, the Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering focuses on research efforts in biomedical engineering between and among the various centres and groups from the engineering, medicine, dentistry, and science faculties.

Professor Paolo Boffetta (MD), the Annals of Oncology associate editor for epidemiology and Director of the Institute of Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA), commented: «These results are extremely important in showing that reducing cancer mortality can be achieved: priority should be given to research in cancers with unfavourable trends, such as pancreatic cancer, and in reducing cancer mortality disparities, both between countries (Central / Eastern versus Western Europe), and within countries, for example, between socioeconomic groups.

Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical rResearch and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical researchresearch.

«By using a serious video game, we saw increases in meal - specific vegetable intake at dinner for the children in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

«When someone is thinking about joining my group I am very up front with what my expectations are,» says PI Paul Doetsch, professor and distinguished chair in cancer research, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, adding that one major expectation he has for his lab members is a strong work ethic.

In 2009 the nongovernmental Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a list of 100 disorders, including lower back pain, atrial fibrillation, and early prostate cancer, that it says require research analyzing which treatments work best for different groups of patients.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told Science at the time.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.

The U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Academy of Medicine recently brought together 25 of these groups to compare projects, to examine the current state of implementation and desired near - term capabilities, and to identify opportunities for collaboration that promote the responsible practice of genomic mMedicine recently brought together 25 of these groups to compare projects, to examine the current state of implementation and desired near - term capabilities, and to identify opportunities for collaboration that promote the responsible practice of genomic medicinemedicine.

A research group led by Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Ph.D. student KATSUNUMA Sayaka and Assistant Professor TOGASHI Hideru discovered the mechanism for a mosaic pattern formation of two different cell types.

The findings of a research group in Manchester, published in the Emergency Medicine Journal, could potentially make a huge difference to a large number of patients.

Last January, days before a vote in the House of Representatives to loosen the rules on stem cell research, the journal Nature Biotechnology posted an article online, written by a group headed by Anthony Atala at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, reporting the discovery of stem cells isolated from amniotic fluid.

A research team reports in the April 16 Science Translational Medicine that after a small group of ferrets were exposed to the canine distemper virus — a close cousin of measles — and then three days later treated with a newly developed antiviral medication, the disease was completely suppressed.

A research group led by Olga Malyshevskaya and Yoshihiro Urade of International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI - IIIS), University of Tsukuba, discovered that seizures, a life - threatening condition, can be induced by natural Δ9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9 - THC, main constituent of marijuana) or the synthetic cannabinoid JWH - 018 (main component of synthetic blend «Spice») in mice.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

«This is why it is especially important for arthritis patients to keep fit and work on their cardiovascular endurance,» says Anja Bye, a researcher at the K. G. Jebsen Centre for Exercise in Medicine — Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG) at NTNU.

The research group led by Mahesh K. Kaushik and Yoshihiro Urade of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI - IIIS), University of Tsukuba, investigated the effect of various components of Ashwaganda on sleep in mice by recording electroencephalogram and electromyography.

When Richard Kravitz, co-vice chair of research in the department of internal medicine at the University of California, Davis, does focus groups to see what doctors think about N of 1 trials, he usually has to start by explaining what an N of 1 trial is.

Dr. Kallioniemi's group is currently active in individualized systems medicine research on various cancers, with a special focus on rapid translational research to improve leukemia diagnostics and therapy.

A research group at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine has been using a rat model to see how maternal intake of above - requirement vitamins (A, D, E, and K) impact offspring's brain development and behaviour.

«Whenever we use such a technology to examine an organ or an organism, we find not only familiar cell types, but also unknown and rare ones,» says Dr. Jan Philipp Junker, head of the Quantitative Developmental Biology research group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC).

Professor Takao Hamakubo's group at the Department of Quantitative Biology and Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), have shown that PTX3 forms strong bonds with histones and partially unfolds, leading to a disordered coaggregation of histone and PTX3 and protecting human endothelial cells from damage.

«We see early aging in the group from the Chernobyl disaster — if we see a man from that group who is, say, 50, the medical examination might suggest he is 10 or 15 years older compared with a member of the population of Ukraine not influenced by the disaster,» says Anver Gasanov, deputy chief medical officer at the Research Center for Radiation Medicine.

A cross-campus group of faculty and staff from the University of Michigan's Department of Human Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Institute for Social Research contributed to the papers.

A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.

The data was originally collected at Imperial College London in 2012 by a research group led by Dr Carhart - Harris and Professor David Nutt from the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London.

A research group consisting of Andrew M. Stern of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, R. Grant Steen of MediCC Medical Communications Consultants, and Fang analyzed several open databases to answer these questions:

The research group led by Professor Lohi is based at the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine in the University of Helsinki and at the Folkhälsan Researchresearch group led by Professor Lohi is based at the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine in the University of Helsinki and at the Folkhälsan ResearchResearch Center.

«Our collective research has shown that horses can often develop this disease earlier in life, yet earlier clinical signs don't always translate into positive test results,» said Nicholas Frank, D.V.M, DACVIM, professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and group coordinator for the Equine Endocrinology Ggroup coordinator for the Equine Endocrinology GroupGroup.

Multi-center, international collaboration The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Medical University of Vienna (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working group led by Winfried Mayr), the Otto - Wagner Hospital (Neurology Center, Heinrich Binder), Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Frank Rattay) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (Milan R. Dimitrijevic) and is funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the «Wings for Life — Spinal Cord Research Foundation.»

«Our study demonstrates that dogs can distinguish angry and happy expressions in humans, they can tell that these two expressions have different meanings, and they can do this not only for people they know well, but even for faces they have never seen before,» says Ludwig Huber, senior author and head of the group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna's Messerli Research Institute.

The study was part of an international consortium called ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis), which spans 76 centers and includes 28 different research groups across the world, and is led by the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

The drug lenvatinib can significantly improve overall survival rates in a group of thyroid cancer patients whose disease is resistant to standard radioiodine treatment, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a White House East Room audience packed with federal science leaders, academic researchers, patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.