Sentences with phrase «school of medicine at»

«This study highlights genes and molecular processes that could be targets for new therapies to treat peanut - allergy reactions and could be important to understanding how peanut allergy works overall,» said the study's senior author, Supinda Bunyavanich, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Margaret R. Karagas, Ph.D., of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Lebanon, N.H., and coauthors examined the frequency with which infants at rice and rice - containing products in their first year of life, as well as the association with arsenic concentrations in the urine.

Ninety percent of children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had relapsed multiple times or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy, CTL019, developed at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Now, a multidisciplinary research team led by David Eckmann, MD, PhD, Horatio C. Wood Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of Bioengineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has found that when delivered by a microscopic transporter called a nanocarrier, steroids can access the hard - to - reach lung endothelial cells that need it most and are successful at preventing inflammation in mice.

«Calorie labeling appears to be effective in an online environment where consumers have fewer distractions, and the simpler traffic - light labeling seems as effective as standard calorie numbers,» said lead author Eric M. VanEpps, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Briggs is now an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

«Our results help us further understand how sleep timing in addition to duration may affect obesity risk,» said principal investigator Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, associate professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

«There is a growing body of research demonstrating associations between obesity, diabetes, and cancer risk,» said lead author Jennifer A. Emond, an instructor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

«Crohn's disease is a complex disorder with multiple genes and environmental factors involved, which disproportionally affects individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry,» explained lead researcher Inga Peter, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

«Defining the biology of naturally occurring protective mutations is quite important, because they define desired outcomes for potentially new therapies,» explained the study's co-author Judy H. Cho, MD, Director of the Sanford Grossman Center for Integrative Studies in Crohn's disease, and the Charles F. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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.

On 29 September, AAAS hosted a lively online discussion on Reddit's «Ask Me Anything» (AMA) forum on implicit bias in science — a discussion Smith joined, along with Shirley Malcom, AAAS» director of Education and Human Resources programs, Caleph B. Wilson, a biomedical scientist with Cellectis, a biopharmaceutical company, and Avery Posey, Jr., an instructor in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«The study was inspired by patients who had experienced moments of «volcanic craving», being suddenly overcome by the extreme desire for cocaine, but without a trigger that they could put their finger on,» says senior author Anna Rose Childress, PhD, research professor of Psychiatry, director of the Brain - Behavioral Vulnerabilities Division in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

In a study of mice, scientists from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA discovered that boosting the animals» cholesterol levels spurred intestinal stem cells to divide more quickly, enabling tumors to form 100 times faster.

Donation consent rates are highest in the Midwest and lowest in New York State, according to a study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Kansas Hospital in the new issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

«For 20 years, we have been applying technologies to prevent glial scarring in hopes of promoting nerve fiber regeneration, repair and recovery, but never observed a positive effect,» said Sofroniew, a professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«A number of these iconic, salient evolutionary changes occurred in the Galapagos,» said senior author Leonid Kruglyak, chair of human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The more the surface area of the body is covered by psoriasis, the greater the risk of death for the patient suffering from the condition, according to a new analysis by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

One study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City looked at 373 sites across India, the Philippines and Indonesia, and calculated how much damage elevated levels of lead, chromium and other chemicals imparted to human health.

«We're now able to see how astrocytes and synapses make physical contact, and determine how these connections change in disorders like Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease,» said lead author Baljit Khakh, a professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

In this paper, we propose a combination of traits that improve replication success,» said first author Ivan P. Gorlov, PhD, DSC, associate professor of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Simon Williams is a research associate at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, in Chicago, Illinois.

↵ * Present address: Medical Scientist Training Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Colin A. Johnson, Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, said: «This research gives us the best list yet of the human genes needed to make cilia.

The study was a collaboration between Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Spain and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

«We have identified key elements of the WTC response that have affected the health of the exposed population and ongoing population monitoring and treatment,» comments lead author Michael Crane, MD, MPH, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«Larynx preservation via chemoradiation is an excellent, organ - preserving option to total laryngectomy for many patients with less advanced larynx cancers,» said Alexander Lin, MD, an assistant professor and chief of Head and Neck Service in the department of Radiation Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the study's senior author.

Nearly 93 percent of National Football League (NFL) athletes who sustained traumatic injuries to the midfoot returned to competition less than 15 months after injury and with no statistically significant decrease in performance, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Scientists at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, along with collaborators at institutions in India, Italy, and Japan, have identified the first gene linked to childhood - onset familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), one of the most common heart muscle diseases in children.

«We know that mothers» exposure to air pollution during pregnancy can affect lung development of their babies and lead to subsequent respiratory disorders, including asthma, although little is known about whether timing of the exposure is important to consider,» said lead author Yueh - Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, ScD, from the Department of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

«High dose steroids is the only proven treatment for GVHD,» said James L. M. Ferrara, MD, DSc, Ward - Coleman Chair in Cancer Medicine Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Hematologic Malignancies Translational Research Center at Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai.

«There was equivalent and impressive positive remodeling of the left ventricle in both the CABG and CABG - plus - MV repair groups,» said study co-author John Puskas, MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel who serves on the Steering Committee of CTSN.

Scientists from the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues examined the critical role of tissue hypoxia, or oxygen starvation, in the induction and amplification of FOP lesions, also called flare - ups.

A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life - threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the journal Lancet Haematology and in print in the January issue.

Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.

«Never before has PTK6 inhibition been shown to inhibit growth and induce cell death of ER + breast cancer cells, including those resistant to standard treatments for this subtype such as tamoxifen,» said Hanna Irie, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Oncological Sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and senior author of the study.

A new meta - analysis published online in PLOS ONE by infectious disease and epidemiology specialists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania highlights significant gaps in hepatitis C care that will prove useful as the U.S. health care system continues to see an influx of patients with the disease because of improved screening efforts and new, promising drugs.

Senior author Dr Abraham Reichenberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with King's IoPPN said: «It is important to bear in mind that many children will experience some difficulties with schoolwork or other intellectual tasks at some point in their lives, and only a small minority will go on to develop a psychotic disorder.»

The team led by John Hogenesch, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Jason DeBruyne, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Hogenesch lab and now an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, applied their new method to identifying other clock partners that target a multipurpose cell nucleus receptor for disposal.

The researchers from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States found falls in IQ start in early childhood, and suggest educational interventions could potentially delay the onset of mental illness.

Researchers from Kent State University's College of Arts and Sciences, along with colleagues from the George Washington University, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Georgia State University, Barrow Neurological Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, found that the brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's disease brain.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is where the CTSN's DCC is based which directs each of its clinical trial's design, methodologies, ethical research concerns, study data, analysis and reporting.

The results of this trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.

The CTSN DCC is based at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which has eight core clinical centers in the U.S. and Canada, including Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, Montefiore Einstein Heart Center, Montreal Heart Institute, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania and 19 Consortium sites.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a protein that can be targeted to suppress growth of a common type of breast cancer known as «estrogen receptor positive» (ER +), including ER + cancers that are resistant to standard treatments.

«Our team is dedicated to crafting high - performance analysis tools and to sharing those resources with the broader genomics community to help us all generate the best possible results,» said Eric Schadt, PhD, the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Founding Director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

The team, led by Eric Witze, PhD, an assistant professor of Cancer Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published their findings this month in Molecular Cell.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.