Sentences with phrase «co-senior author of the work»

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«We are in the process of elucidating the exact mechanism by which B2M works,» said Saul A. Villeda, PhD, a UCSF Faculty Fellow and co-senior author of the new study.

«Our work strongly supports that cancer stem cells are the main source of growth in these tumors and, as such, should be considered promising targets for treatment,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology, co-senior author of the Nature paper.

«For someone like myself, in this kind of work, this is the kind of result that you get to see once in your career,» said study co-senior author Philippe Armand, MD, PhD, medical oncologist in the Hematologic Oncology Treatment Center at Dana - Farber.

Based on that assumption, many companies tested PKC inhibitors as drugs to treat cancer, but they didn't work,» said co-senior author Alexandra Newton, PhD, professor of pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Working together was critical to reaching that goal,» said study co-senior author Bronwyn MacInnis, associate director of malaria and viral genomics in the Broad's Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program.

«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.

«The results position TRPV4 as a new target for preventing and treating sunburn, and probably chronic sun damage including skin cancer or skin photo - aging, though more work must be done before TRPV4 inhibitors can become part of the sun defense arsenal, perhaps in new kinds of skin cream, or to treat chronic sun damage,» said Steinhoff, co-senior author of the study.

«The majority of cancer patients we work with are excited to participate in clinical trials that could benefit future patient outcomes down the line,» says co-senior author Bryan Allen, who led the clinical side of the study.

I didn't believe her,» said co-senior author, Tom Lane, Ph.D., a professor of pathology at the University of Utah, who began the work at University of California, Irvine.

The electron microscopy work was a collaboration with Elizabeth Wright, PhD, Emory associate professor of pediatrics and co-senior author on the paper, and her colleagues at Emory's Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core.

In this new work, co-senior author Xiao Zhen Zhou, MD, an investigator in BIDMC's Division of Translational Therapeutics and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, decided to take a different approach to identify Pin1 inhibitors: She developed a mechanism - based high throughput screen to identify compounds that were targeting active Pin1.

But Markovitz and his co-senior author Hashim M. Al - Hashimi, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at Duke University and formerly professor of chemistry and biophysics at U-M, hope that their team's work can help address the lack of antiviral drugs that work well against many viruses or against viruses that change rapidly, such as influenza.

«Tobacco was used as the model crop plant in this study because it is easy to work with, but we're working to make the same modifications in rice and other food crops,» said co-senior author Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»