Sentences with phrase «university immunologist»

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and parting of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s, Rudensky seized newfound opportunities to partner with Western scientists, and plucked up the courage to reach out to renowned Yale University immunologist Charles Janeway.

Columbia University immunologist Rachel Miller recently found evidence babies have pretty well developed immune systems by the time they're born.

Doherty and Zinkernagel, now director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, «discovered the phenomena that the rest of us have been trying to understand since 1974,» says Harvard University immunologist Don Wiley.

Writing in Pediatrics and Therapeutics in 2012, Swedo, along with Jim Leckman of the Child Study Center at Yale University and the famed Johns Hopkins University immunologist Noel Rose, set the criteria for PANS.

Inherited Neanderthal genes come in alleles that help fight off nasty viruses such as Epstein - Barr — associated with several kinds of cancer, says Stanford University immunologist Laurent Abi - Rached.

Not exact matches

Todd Green, MD, FAAAI, is an allergist / immunologist in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Allergy / Immunology Fellowship Program, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

«Although [the evidence] is largely circumstantial, it's a start for sure,» says Tony Schountz, an immunologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who studies hantaviruses in bats.

- MRC, which funds biomedical science at U.K. universities and global health trials, also has an ongoing call to fund collaborations between immunologists and food allergists

Treating patients with an antibody called pembrolizumab (sold under the brand name Keytruda) caused these T cells to increase in number, says coauthor Kellie Smith, a cancer immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.

The work identifies «a new and much more efficient method to generate broadly active antibodies against HIV,» says immunologist Justin Bailey of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

«We are seeing a lot of progress in this area,» says Shan Lu, an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and president of the International Society for Vaccines.

«Nobody has ever shown how FasL is induced» in the developing placenta, says reproductive immunologist Scott Kauma of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

But their specific functions «were still very much a mystery,» says Edward Thorp, an immunologist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Such infections «are the really nasty things for patients,» says immunologist Peter Nibbering at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Immunologist John Wrangle, M.D., of the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina said it's a promising therapy that can be delivered in an outpatient setting.

Immunologist Nick Cohen at the University of Rochester in New York says the causes are complex and not understood but notes that environmental degradation has weakened the frogs» immune systems.

In September 2002, the phone rang in immunologist Vittorio Colizzi's office at Tor Vergata University in Rome.

Although the group didn't identify the toxin's target, it probably causes cells to die from within by overstimulating the immune system, says immunologist Harry Hill of the University of Utah.

Likewise, immunologist Kathleen Hoag of Michigan State University in East Lansing loves her job despite the long hours — «It's fun!

Graham Rook, an immunologist at University College London and a coauthor of the paper, adds that depression itself may be in part an inflammatory disorder.

In a preliminary new study, psychoneuro - immunologist Lee Berk and his team at Loma Linda University in California show that the parallels between laughing and exercise go even further: Shifts in appetite hormones following a case of the giggles resemble the effects of a moderate session at the gym.

This work helps us understand how medical male circumcision reduces HIV - infection in men and points towards novel interventions to decrease HIV risk in the future,» says Rupert Kaul, an infectious disease physician and the study's senior immunologist and a Professor at the University of Toronto.

«Dendritic cells are the guys who are training the fighters,» says Pawel Kalinski, an immunologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, about their role in activating T cells, the body's immune sentries.

But now «the approach can be reset using the bacterial and human genomic data,» says immunologist Steven Schutzer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

«This is truly the most fantastic news,» says Gustav Nossal, an immunologist at University of Melbourne.

That connection was strengthened by immunologist Madeleine Cunningham, a rheumatic fever expert from the University of Oklahoma.

In tomorrow's Nature, a team led by immunologist Rolf Zinkernagel from the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, suggests that animals may gain lifelong immunity to some viral infections by retaining a bit of viral DNA inside their cells like a souvenir.

A team led by University of Minnesota immunologist and gastroenterologist Alexander Khoruts has recently demonstrated spectacular success with fecal transplants, which introduce healthy stool microbes into a diseased bowel.

«It's impressive,» says James Crowe, an immunologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in the study.

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These changes indicate that the mitochondria are not working correctly, says Paul Eggleton, an immunologist at the University of Exeter in England and a coauthor of the study.

Cathryn Nagler, an immunologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has spent years probing links between the immune system, intestinal bacteria, and the onset of allergies.

News of Pearse's discovery quickly spread to the Australian mainland, where it reached University of Sydney immunologist Kathy Belov.

The work could have implications for pregnant women infected with Zika or women with autoimmune disorders who are trying to have a baby, says study author Akiko Iwasaki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and immunologist at Yale University.

Together, the findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.

Scientists have known about the beneficial effects of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much data available to explain what is going on,» says immunologist James George of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, an author of the new study.

While they were developing successful careers, Ruth and Victor raised a family of scientists: Michel, their eldest son, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute immunologist at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

Similarly, Bruce Beutler, an immunologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how endotoxins activate the immune system, says helping his father work in his genetics lab gave him an early advantage.

«I think they have a very interesting observation,» says University of Toronto immunologist Richard Miller.

One of Belov's students, immunologist Hannah Siddle, now at the University of Southampton in the U.K., jumped at the chance to investigate this possibility.

Pediatric immunologists Gurjit Khurana Hershey and Talal Chatila of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their colleagues set out to examine the receptor protein that IL - 4 binds to on white blood cells.

And several responses to the GSI policy have been posted online, including an open letter from a group of new investigators, a letter from the University of Pennsylvania, and comments from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Association of Immunologists.

«We know very little about how the different pathogens interact with the bugs that don't cause disease,» says immunologist Marcelo Sztein of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

University of North Carolina plant immunologist Jeff Dangl says plants have many immune receptors with unknown functions: «There may be a vast listening apparatus just waiting to be discovered.»

Jiri Mestecky, a mucosal immunologist based at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, says the MucoJet «looks attractive.»

Suchita Nadkarni, an immunologist at Queen Mary University of London, used a technique called confocal microscopy to snap individual photos of nine mouse placentas.

Immunologist Jeff Bluestone, at the University of Chicago, disagreed: His experiments suggested that CTLA - 4 subdued T - cell activation.

Immunologist Jonathan Rast of University of Toronto in Canada initially noticed hints of a Rag1 - like gene in the data produced by scientists sequencing the sea urchin's genome.