Sentences with phrase «co-senior authors assistant»

In the study, published in the journal eLife, co-senior authors Assistant Professor Shawn Je from Duke - NUS and Assistant Professor Zeng Li from NNI have shown how one brain - specific microRNA (miR - 128) plays a key role in causing abnormal brain development.

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We were surprised that no one had directly addressed the idea that the underlying parts of the brain — the forebrain and midbrain — are correlated or somehow developmentally related to the overlying frontal and parietal bones,» said co-senior author Bhart - Anjan Singh Bhullar, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology and vertebrate zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Despite the availability of many excellent antibiotics, bacteria are developing resistance to those most commonly used, forcing physicians to give higher doses or fall back to «last line of defense» drugs, said co-senior author Dr. Erdal Toprak, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and in the Cecil H. and Ida Green Comprehensive Center for Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology and a Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Biomedical Research at UT Southwestern.

The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

«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 Medicine.

«Rett syndrome patients have a mutation that makes macrophages hyper - sensitive to specific stress signals,» said Vladimir Litvak, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and physiological systems and co-senior author of the study.

«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.

Payne and her co-senior author Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, adapted the technique from the promising anti-cancer strategy by which T cells are engineered to destroy malignant cells in certain leukemias and lymphomas.

«Identifying these gene variants linked to both type 2 diabetes and CHD risk in principle opens up opportunities to lower the risk of both outcomes with a single drug,» said study co-senior author Danish Saleheen, PhD, an assistant professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

«These data suggest that the interplay between race and ethnicity as social constructs and genetic ancestry as a biological construct is more complex than we had realized,» said Noah Zaitlen, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor of medicine and co-senior author on the new study.

«Strikingly, further analysis showed a strong association between DNA methylation levels of these markers in monocytes and neuropsychological test function, measured using a composite score of multiple cognitive domains,» said Dr. Maunakea, Assistant Professor, Department of Native Hawaiian Health, JABSOM and co-senior author of the study.

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.

The research, which was published online October 25, 2016 in Cell Reports, was conducted by the laboratories of co-senior authors Nevan J. Krogan, PhD, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF, director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) in UCSF's School of Pharmacy, and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, and Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology in UCSF's School of Medicine.

Postdoctoral fellow Sharon Swanger, PhD is first author of the paper, and Yuan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology, is co-senior author.

«The fact that fetal stem cell transplantation has not been very successful has been puzzling, especially given the widely accepted dogma that the immature fetal immune system can adapt to tolerate foreign substances,» said co-senior author Qizhi Tang, PhD, an assistant professor of transplant surgery and director of the UCSF Transplantation Research Lab.

«This is the first time anyone has generated potentially therapeutic lung stem cells from minimally invasive biopsy specimens,» said co-senior author of both papers Jason Lobo, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at UNC and medical director of lung transplant and interstitial lung disease.Co - senior author Ke Cheng, PhD, an associate professor in NCSU's Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and the UNC / NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, said, «We think the properties of these cells make them potentially therapeutic for a wide range of lung fibrosis diseases.»