Sentences with phrase «phd research assistant professor»
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Danielle A. Schlosser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Digital Health Core in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the NIH - funded Digital Research and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depResearch and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depresearch program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depression.
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«Finding ways to decrease the incidence and severity of sports - related injuries is critical to keeping kids playing sports long - term and reaping the benefits that organized athletics provides,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.
As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.
The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.
Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.
Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.
Ciprian N. Ionita, PhD, a research assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department — a joint effort of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB — foresees the Vader Systems printer ultimately printing out custom stents and other surgical devices right in the hospital.
«We believe that music could potentially be used as an intervention to help people with epilepsy,» said Christine Charyton, PhD, adjunct assistant professor and visiting assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who presented the research.
«We show that high dietary saturated fat content is associated with increased prostate cancer aggressiveness,» said Emma H. Allott, PhD, a research assistant professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
She is first author of the research, while Anthony Leonard, PhD, UC assistant professor of family medicine, is also a co-author.
The research, conducted by Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor, and Ghassan Hamra, PhD, assistant professor, both of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, was published in the Journal of Urban Health and used a decade's worth of crime data in Philadelphia (from 2006 until 2015) to find that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct increased when daily temperatures are higher.
Samuel Weiss, PhD, Professor and Director of the HBI, and Research Assistant Professor Artee Luchman, PhD, and colleagues, published their work today in Clinical Cancer Research, which is leading researchers to start a human phase I / II clinical trial as early as Spring 2015.
«With the availability of more and more data analytics in health care, it's the right time to use data to direct the investments of drug discovery and biomedical research for the common good,» said the study's first author, Lixia Yao, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
«There have been several studies relating cortisol levels in teenagers and adults to socioeconomic status, but this is the first to look at this relationship among pregnant women and their babies,» said study author Zaneta Thayer, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology at CU Denver, a major center of timely, topical and relevant research.
«Every human carries trillions of bacteria in their gut (gut microbiome) and recent advances in research indicate that these tiny passengers play an important role in our overall health maintenance,» says Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
Babji Srinivasan, a postdoc with Venkatasubramanian and Kumar and now an assistant professor at IIT Gandhinagar, and Thi Vo, a PhD candidate at Columbia Engineering, carried out the computational research.
Lead author Jason Karpac, PhD, Assistant Research Professor at the Buck, says when young animals experience a change in diet, insulin signaling gets repressed, which turns on Foxo.
Our data shows that video gaming is quite an important factor that frequently leads to missed sleep for 67 percent of gamers,» said lead author and principal investigator Brandy M. Roane, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center and director of the UNTHSC Sleep Research Lab.
This bioinformatics portion of the study was performed by co-first author Hee - Woong Lim, PhD, an IDOM postdoctoral fellow, and research assistant professor Kyoungjae Won, PhD.
«By combining my laboratory's expertise in ovarian cancer biology and Dr. Xu's expertise in bioinformatics, we were able to uncover a potentially novel drug approach to treat ovarian cancer,» said co-senior author Analisa DiFeo, PhD, the Norma C. and Albert I. Geller Designated Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research and assistant professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research and assistant professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
The molecular details of our discovery will facilitate the design of new drugs and new vaccines,» said Alexis Kaushansky, PhD, an assistant professor at the Center for Infectious Disease Research.
«With existing techniques, you can only see the outline of the virus,» said author Thomas D. Grant, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Structural Biology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and the Department of Materials, Design and Innovation in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Hauptman - Woodward Medical Research Inresearch assistant professor in the Department of Structural Biology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and the Department of Materials, Design and Innovation in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Hauptman - Woodward Medical Research InResearch Institute.
Maja Djukic, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the College of Nursing, New York University, led the research team.
Other Stanford authors of the study are research assistants Charles Lynch, Katherine Cheng, Paola Odriozola and Maria Barth; Jennifer Phillips, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford; Carl Feinstein, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; and Daniel Abrams, PhD, postdoctoral scholar.
Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
«Resveratrol may have detrimental effects in some disease conditions and should be discouraged for supplemental use by MS patients pending further research,» says lead investigator Ikuo Tsunoda, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Molecular & Tumor Virology of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
«Those genes provide so much information for doctors that screening for them is now done in hospitals,» says Jim Crowley, PhD, a research assistant professor in Sullivan's lab and first author of the Genetics paper.
To address these questions, Dang, Altman, and Hsieh collaborated with Penn colleague, Aalim Weljie, PhD, research assistant professor of Pharmacology, using an osteosarcoma cancer cell line to study the interaction of MYC and metabolism in cancer cells.
«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.
«According to SAMHSA (2015), alcohol and drug abuse and related problems contribute substantially to the burden of disease in the U.S., costing an estimated $ 400 billion annually,» said Dr. Jennifer Manuel, PhD, an assistant professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an affiliated researcher with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (NYU CDUHR).
«Most research has focused solely on nutritional intake or physical activity during recess,» said Naiman Khan, PhD, assistant professor and leader of the research team.
Dr. Michael Kilgard, associate director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) and Margaret Forde Jonsson Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, led the research team with Dr. Seth Hays, the TxBDC director of preclinical research and assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD&rProfessor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, led the research team with Dr. Seth Hays, the TxBDC director of preclinical research and assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD&rprofessor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD» 17.
«The biochemical mechanisms of these proteins have been known for years from experiments involving purified protein and DNA, and that's very important, but in this new work we've clarified these proteins» roles in living cells,» said co-senior author Christopher P. Selby, PhD, research assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC.
«This is the first research project to investigate if having law enforcement officers equipped with naloxone and trained to refer victims to drug rehabilitation will encourage more people to call 911 and receive treatment,» said Peter Davidson, PhD, lead study author and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Graduate student Randall Platt, recent PhD recipient Stephen Goldfless, and Feng Zhang, the W.M. Keck Career Development Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, also contributed to the research.
The dogma has been that recombination is repressed in centromeric regions,» said Sheng Sun, PhD, lead study author and assistant research professor at Duke University School of Medicine.
«The information to support this dual effort is available in academic journals, but translating the information into a usable and practical format available to the right people at the right time is key to changing the way co-endemic diseases are controlled,» says Claire J. Standley, PhD, MSc, assistant research professor with Georgetown's Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS).
«It's a dramatic increase in lifespan of animal models, as much as 25 percent,» said Leyuan Liu, PhD, assistant professor at the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology's Center for Translational Cancer Research.
«In these instances, the patients correctly judged the expressed emotion,» said Ueli Rutishauser, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery and director of human neurophysiology research at Cedars - Sinai, senior author of an article published online the week of June 30 in the Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To peel away at the intricate layers that govern the development of neurons, a research team led by Chaolin Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor in Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Hynek Wichterle, PhD, Associate Professor in Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Neurology, at the Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University Medical Center, focuses on a level of molecular regulation called alternative splicing.
The other co-authors, all of them Stanford affiliates, were associate professor of genetics Anne Brunet, PhD; postdoctoral scholar Tom Cheung, PhD; MD / PhD student Gregory Charville; and research assistants Bernadette Marie Ceniza Hurgo, Tripp Leavitt and Johnathan Shih.
Study coauthor James Parham, PhD — Academy Research Associate, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at Cal State Fullerton, and turtle expert — says cutting - edge testing techniques bring a new level of clarity to more than two decades of his turtle rResearch Associate, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at Cal State Fullerton, and turtle expert — says cutting - edge testing techniques bring a new level of clarity to more than two decades of his turtle researchresearch.
The LSU Health New Orleans research team also included Richard Scribner, MD, Professor and Co-Investigator, Maura Kepper, MPH, PhD candidate, Jovanny Zabaleta, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Claudia Leonardi, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Lauren Griffiths, MPH, research associate.
«There has been an utmost urgency to identify biomarkers for mental illness that could significantly impact research and drug development,» said Xianjin Zhou, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and lead author.
A research team, led by Columbia Nursing Assistant Professor Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, investigated the impact of inequitable nurse compensation on patient satisfaction at a representative cross section of 181 Chinese hospitals.
«As the field of AD epidemiology is only beginning to integrate the metabolomics approach, it is likely that fruitful collaborations and innovative ways to analyze these data will follow,» said co-corresponding author Vincent Chouraki, MD, PhD, former research fellow from BUSM and now assistant professor in epidemiology at Lille University School of Medicine in France.
«Understanding racial differences in behaviors that affect men's health is an important step toward reducing health disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.
In particular, insomnia can lead to decreased quality of life, increased rates of depression, and even increased risk of heart disease,» said senior author, Michael Grandner, PhD MTR, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Medicine, and Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona.
Pinton, research assistant professor David Espindola, PhD, and research technician Stephen Lee described their observations in a paper published in Physical Review Applied.