Last month, in a step tantamount to heresy in the public health world, scientists at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report saying that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle - age adults, and little if any protection for those 65 and older, who are most likely to succumb to the illness or its complications.
The laboratory of Dr. Eric Brown is a part of the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences as well as the Michael G. DeGroote Institute
for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University.
Dr. Erin Brown, principal investigator at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute
for Infectious Disease Research, and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences.
Tracey completed postdoctoral research with Dr. David Sherman at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle, WA.
She moved to the West Coast for her Postdoctoral research and worked with David Sherman at Center
for Infectious Disease Research, where she gained experience working with M. tuberculosisand also developed and ran high throughput biochemical screens and target - based whole - cell screens.
Stamatatos began work on developing the vaccine candidate while at Seattle Biomed, now the Center
for Infectious Disease Research.
The chief research collaborators are Alan A. Aderem of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle, Garry P. Nolan of Stanford University, and Bruce A. Beutler, who helped co-found the project while at TSRI but is now at the University of Texas Southwestern.
Mentors can be based at Fred Hutch, University of Washington, the Institute for Systems Biology, and / or Center
for Infectious Disease Research provided both mentors have appointments with the University of Washington.
But Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, says authorities should have been prepared to deploy the vaccine more quickly.
A team led by parasitologist Stefan Kappe at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle in Washington gave a rodent version of this «genetically attenuated parasite,» or GAP, to mice and showed that they were completely protected when later infected with an unmodified — or wild - type — version of the same Plasmodium strain.
Michael Osterholm, head of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, says he thinks «the money can be used wisely across the Americas.»
«This is a much bigger issue than just a duplicate publication,» adds Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
That does not mean conventional containment strategies shouldn't still be used aggressively, and they need to be scaled up drastically, says Michael Osterholm, who heads the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
«We've got to get out of chicken eggs,» says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the research.
Michael Osterholm, an expert on influenza and biodefense, is director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.
This work, published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, was carried out in collaboration with researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the Center
for infectious disease research in Seattle and was partially funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the European Research Council (ERC), Swiss Vaccine Research Institute and the Fondazione Aldo e Cele Daccò.
«We have to work with these flu viruses, that is how we can understand them,» says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Original board member Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, said he had expected to serve until sometime in 2015.
«Antimicrobial resistance is an under - resourced area across all investments
for infectious disease research, and pneumonia is no exception,» says lead author Michael Head of UCL and Southampton.
«To date, the only things you can do to reduce your age - associated inflammation are eat a healthy diet, exercise, and manage any chronic inflammatory conditions to the best of your ability,» says senior author Dawn Bowdish (@MsMacrophage) of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute
for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University.
«A highly infectious case, combined with poor infection control can easily lead to this kind of cluster,» says Mike Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
The molecular details of our discovery will facilitate the design of new drugs and new vaccines,» said Alexis Kaushansky, PhD, an assistant professor at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research.
The Center
for Infectious Disease Research.
Scientists at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research recently uncovered a critical piece in the puzzle of how malaria parasites infect their host.
Materials provided by The Center
for Infectious Disease Research.
Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center
for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.
«Tracing social and risk networks has been found to help locate people recently infected with HIV, given that the virus is transmitted through sexual and injection risk networks,» said Friedman, director of the Institute
for Infectious Disease Research at NDRI and associate director and senior theoretician at CDUHR.
Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.
«A food manufacturer could easily incorporate this into its production process,» says Didar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the McMaster Institute
for Infectious Disease Research.
«The pause is welcome in the sense that hopefully it will relieve some of the immediate urgency in terms of trying to chart a course forward,» agrees Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota's Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, and is a member of the NSABB.
Government agencies urged people to stockpile water and peanut butter and tuna fish in preparation for what Michael Osterholm, director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the press would be «three years of a given hell....
«We're in a serious jam,» says Gerry Wright, director of the Michael DeGroote Institute
for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University.
Neuropharmacologist David Nutt, who has worked as the U.K. government's drug adviser, says that although he doesn't know Farrar personally, the appointment is «clearly good news
for infectious diseases research and the global influence of the Wellcome Trust.
Not exact matches
In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI
research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel
disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion
for cancer and $ 3.6 billion
for infectious diseases.
An original co-founder of MaRS, U of T has chosen the site
for its renowned
research teams working in drug discovery, regenerative medicine,
infectious diseases and advanced computing.
However, the organization also called
for more
research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common
infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31
The public should demand that Big Pharma immediately disgorge some of their profits, stop charging Americans the highest prices in the world, and create a fund to pay
for research on drugs that can curb the spread of
infectious diseases.
A publicly owned drug
research and production utility, operating at cost
for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize
research and production of low - revenue drugs like vaccines
for Ebola, malaria, and other
infectious diseases that are used once.
He outlined his vision
for the University, which includes facilitating a vibrant intellectual climate that stimulates innovative
research and community engagement, promotion of multidisciplinary
research in
infectious diseases, chronic
diseases, maternal and child health policy, among others.
The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention would get $ 1.78 billion
for its Ebola work in the United States and Africa, and the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Disease (NIAID) would receive $ 238 million
for research that includes testing experimental Ebola vaccines.
In the US,
for example, the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, is a hub
for HIV
research, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other d
research, and its Vaccine
Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other d
Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other
diseases.
«Today we see more opportunity than ever to be gained from investing in vaccine
research,» says Keith Gottesdiener, vice president
for vaccine and
infectious disease clinical
research with Merck.
If further studies in humans prove successful, this
research could have broad implications
for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach
for other
infectious diseases as well.
He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne
disease emergence
for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances
for the Coordination of
Research on the Major
Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via
disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Marcia Castro's
research focuses on
infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management
for vector control, spatial patterns of
disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.
These results, along with imaging technologies that capture pathogens in the living host, form a «scaffold»
for future
research into Lyme
disease, says Joseph Breen, bacteriology program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, which funded the work.
Her
research group focuses on developing dynamic models
for effective
infectious disease management
for HIV, hepatitis, and genomics.
Beyond its $ 100 - millionper - year platform
research, Moderna runs four wholly owned ventures focused on drugs
for infectious diseases, rare
diseases, immuno - oncology, and personalized cancer vaccines.
«Clinical and translational medicine represents an important arena of investigation ripe
for 21st - century science diplomacy, beginning with — although by no means limited to —
infectious disease research,» he and co-author Vaughan Turekian, chief international officer and director of the AAAS Center
for Science Diplomacy, write.
Science story about Galveston's rise as a center
for research on
infectious diseases (Science, 28 April 2000, p. 598) Lawrence Stanberry's home page