Sentences with phrase «chair of the immunology»

For a long time Allison, a gentle - spoken, scraggly - bearded fellow who is now chair of immunology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, had thought the same thing.

During his tenure as chair of the immunology department, he proffered the same advice to the department's young faculty hires.

Allison, chair of the immunology department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and executive director of its research center on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunotherapy.

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.

In his day job, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Allison serves as chair of the immunology department, deputy director of the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers and executive director of the immunotherapy division of the Moon Shots Program, a multidisciplinary effort tackling cancer mortality.

«To support this goal and accelerate these efforts, changes in directions of research support and funding may be required,» co-authors Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology, and Jim Allison, Ph.D., chair of Immunology, said in the review.

It was based on the research of Jim Allison, Ph.D., chair of Immunology, executive director of the immunotherapy platform and director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at MD Anderson.

Much of Rudensky's career unfolded at Sloan - Kettering Institute of the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he arrived in 2008 and is currently chair of the immunology program and director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy.

From Yale, Sasha went on to take a position at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he would stay for 16 years, before moving to New York first as a member of the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and subsequently assuming his current role as the chair of the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and director of the Ludwig Center at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

For a long time Allison, a gentle - spoken, scraggly - bearded fellow who is now chair of immunology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, had thought the same thing.

since 2008 Professor and Chair of Immunology, Director Institute of Immunology, Technical University of Dresden

Not exact matches

Raised in Australia, Blackburn served as a chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California.

According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department of microbiology and immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership program for women in academic medicine) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.

«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.

In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Paller, the Northwestern Medicine chair of dermatology, together with Dr. Emma Guttman - Yassky of Mount Sinai Medical School, discovered that an arm of the immune system — the Th17 pathway — in these patients is way too active, and the higher its activity, the worse the disease severity.

Dr. Merad is the Mount Sinai Chair professor in cancer immunology and the director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai inimmunology and the director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai inImmunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

«We hypothesized that virus - like DNA sequences inherent in our own genomes or the RNA transcripts they produce might be driving the production of interferon and contributing to disease,» said Dr. Crow, chair, Department of Medicine, and Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research atchair, Department of Medicine, and Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research atChair in Immunology and Inflammation Research at HSS.

Jeffrey Frelinger, who was the chair of the Department of Immunology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill for 16 years, is a strong advocate of hiring help.

«We have been working on mechanisms that could be used to disrupt HIV latency,» said Satya Dandekar, chair of the UC Davis Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and senior author on the paper.

He is the Harder Family Chair for Cancer Research, Member and Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, at the Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center.

Paulos is an endowed chair in the Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, an associate professor in the Department of Immunology and a member of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.

«These results suggest that inflammation has a causal role in the pathogenesis of acute Lyme neuroborreliosis,» explained Mario T. Philipp, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and chair of the Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology at Tulane National Primate Research Center (Covington, LA).

«Pancreatic cancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone.

«We had a hunch that rapidly growing tumors can «outgrow» their blood supply, resulting in dead tumor cells that might spill their viral antigens amongst the living cancer cells,» said co-senior study author Arturo Casadevall, chair of Einstein's Microbiology & Immunology department.

«We want to understand what enables the virus to invade the gut, cause inflammation and kill the immune cells,» said Satya Dandekar, lead author of the study and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at UC Davis.

«We've known about these cells blocking immune response for a decade, but haven't been able to shut them down for lack of an identified target,» said the paper's senior author, Larry Kwak, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Lymphoma / Myeloma and director of the Center for Cancer Immunology Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The research study which was led by Dr. Bryan Yipp, assistant professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Pulmonary Immunology, Inflammation and Host Defence, was recently published in CELL Host & Microbe.

«This pathway is very important in balancing immunity against pathogens and tolerance against self,» says Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC, co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and senior author for this study.

«Attending conferences is essential for fostering the relationships and knowledge that drive scientific innovation and growth,» said Finkelstein, retired chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Dr. Beutler, also Professor of Immunology, holds the Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research, in Honor of Laverne and Raymond Willie, Sr..

The research team includes Dr. Masanori Miyata and Dr. Ji - Yun Lee at Georgia State; Dr. Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences at Yale University; Dr. Koichi S. Kobayashi, professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center; and Dr. Hirofumi Kai at Kumamoto University in Japan.

«Fish have a limited number of resources to respond to an illness so their immune system makes choices — when they're infected by sea lice, for example, the fish's immune system is suddenly geared to respond to that specific threat, leaving them totally exposed to other threats like P. salmonis,» said Dixon, a Canada Research Chair in Fish and Environmental Immunology.

Arturo Casadevall, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Center for Immunological Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has been studying Cryptococcus for over 20 years, has compared the phenomenon with a card game where soil microbes are playing for survival, but by chance, a few hands confer «accidental virulence» on other hosts.

For this study, Emory investigators led by Tansey and Jeremy Boss, PhD, chair of microbiology and immunology, teamed up with Stewart Factor, DO, head of Emory's Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Center, and public health researchers from UCLA led by Beate Ritz, MD, PhD.

Dr. Kunle Odunsi is the deputy director of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, where he also serves as the chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, the executive director of the Center for Immunotherapy, and the co-Leader of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy research program.

-- Two new basic science department chairs joined the faculty: James Broach became chair of Biochemistry and Microbiology in January and also serves as director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Aron Lukacher became chair of Microbiology and Immunology in February.

Dr. Nancy Klimas is a Professor of Medicine at Nova Southeastern University, Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Scientific Director of the newly established Institute for Neuro - Immune Medicine.

In 1995, he took up his current positions as Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology at the University of Tokyo, where he continues to study the regulation of immunity and oncogenesis by interferon - regulatory factors.

AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Neonatal Immunity: Getting it Right from the Start Support in part provided by the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Saturday, May 5, 12:30 PM — 2:30 PM, Room 19AB Chairs: Crystal Loving, Natl. Animal Dis.

As part of our coverage of the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago, we are speaking with Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, chair of the department of systems biology and professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, about ways to incorporate homologous recombination markers into clinical practice for ovarian cancer.

Principal Investigator for CFI Cohort Recruitment Professor of Medicine Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology Scientific Director of the Institute for Neuro - Immune Medicine Nova Southeastern University

Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) Symposium Immune Modulation at Mucosal Barriers Monday, May 7, 10:15 AM — 12:15 PM, Room 18AB Chairs: Lauren A. Zenewicz, Univ. of Oklahoma Hlth.

Chinese Society of Immunology, Taiwan (CSIT) Symposium Inflammation and Immunity Sunday, May 6, 10:15 AM — 12:15 PM, Room 16AB Chairs: Jenny Ting, Univ. of North Carolina Kuo - I Lin, Genomics Res.

Bumgardner Chair in Molecular Pathogenesis Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Louisville School of Medicine Office: CTRB 608 Lab: CTRB 633 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Home page

Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary - Treasurer, the Editors - in - Chief of AAI journals (The Journal of Immunology and ImmunoHorizons), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs on the financial standing of AAI and other matters of importance to the membership.

AAI Clinical Immunology Committee Reverse Translation: Learning From the Patient Saturday, May 5, 3:45 PM — 5:45 PM, Room 12AB Chairs: Thomas F. Gajewski, Univ. of Chicago Med.

Chinese Society for Immunology (CSI) Symposium The Regulatory Function of Innate Lympohid Cells and T - Cells Sunday, May 6, 3:45 PM — 5:45 PM, Room 10AB Chairs:

Ctr., ARS, USDA; AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Chair George Mutwiri, Univ. of Saskatchewan

Major Symposium C: New Regulatory Concepts from Human Immunology Studies Chairs: Bana Jabri, Univ. of Chicago Michael J. Lenardo, NIAID, NIH

Major Symposium C: New Regulatory Concepts from Human Immunology Studies Ballroom D Chairs: Bana Jabri, Univ. of Chicago Michael J. Lenardo, NIAID, NIH