Sentences with word «immunobiology»

A magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College with an MD degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School, Glimcher is the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine and a professor of Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School.

Sankar Ghosh, professor of immunobiology at Yale University, explores the regulation of gene expression in developing and differentiating lymphocytes.

But Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany, warns that the story is still quite complicated.

The work «confirms once again that very likely all mammals can be cloned once the reproductive biology and physiology of the particular species is understood and taken into account,» says developmental biologist Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany.

Stephan Kissler, Ph.D., is Investigator in the Section on Immunobiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«We hope to provide a comprehensive understanding of how and why environmental factors interact with individuals» unique genetic make up to influence autoimmune diseases such as MS,» said Dimitry N. Krementsov, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Medicine, Immunobiology Program at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.

The second laboratory continues to focus attention on transplantation immunobiology in mouse models and translational studies of human immunology in transplant recipients.

Medical Director, ONJCRI Head, Cancer Immunobiology Laboratory Medical Director, Cancer and Neurosciences, Clinical Services Unit, Austin Health

Dr Katherine Woods is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in the Cancer Immunobiology Laboratory.

Funding Research reported in this news release was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number R56DK106202 - 01, the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, the Cedars - Sinai F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute and the Drown Foundation.

However, the focus of prior studies has been on how body temperature influenced the virus as opposed to the immune system, said study senior author and Yale professor of immunobiology Akiko Iwasaki.

Professor at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, and director of the research center MIVAC (Mucosal Immunobiology and Vaccine Research Center).

Joslin scientists in the Section of Immunobiology seek to understand how genes that are most widely associated with various autoimmune diseases contribute to disease risk.

This research will have a significant impact on understanding neoantigen - T cell immunobiology and could improve the treatment prospects of pancreatic cancer patients.

All these problems suggest that in cloning, the donor nucleus is not properly reprogrammed to resemble that of a freshly fertilized egg, says developmental biologist Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany.

Professor Adrian Hayday, senior author of the study from Department of Immunobiology at King's College London and Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, said: «APECED is a rare and poorly understood autoimmune disease.

Scientists understand reasonably well how this autoimmune attack progresses, but they don't understand what triggers the attack or how to stop it, says Stephan Kissler, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Immunobiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

That first breakthrough continues to inform the work of Dr. Medzhitov, who is today the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University Medical School, a member of Yale Cancer Center and the National Academy of Sciences, and an HHMI investigator.

Postdoc (2000 - 2003) in the group of Matthias Hammerschmidt at the Max - Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany

By integrating the aforementioned observations of FMc in autoimmunity and transplantation immunobiology, we reasoned that allogeneic FMc might provide immune surveillance for breast cancer in parous women.

Funding Research reported in this news release was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (award number 1 - UG3 - NS -105703-01) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (award number R56DK106202 - 01) of the National Institutes of Health: the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute; the F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute; and the Drown Foundation.

Waksal, who has a doctorate in immunobiology, was released from prison in 2008 and founded his second biotech company, Kadmon Holdings.

Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research on the effects of the Zika virus on the nervous system.

Trained as a psychobiologist, his research has contributed to advancements in the fields of developmental psychology, physiological psychology, and perception; he has also made important contributions in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, immunobiology, ethology, and molecular biology.

The project was led by three scientists: John Harley, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) at Cincinnati Children's and a faculty member of the Cincinnati VA Medical Center; Leah Kottyan, PhD, an immunobiology expert with CAGE; and Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with the center.

Kristian Doyle, assistant professor of immunobiology and neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, uses biomarkers to study how the immune system deals with dead brain tissue after a stroke.

Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Division of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

«We now have a better understanding of how RNA synthesis works for these viruses,» said Sean Whelan, HMS professor of microbiology and immunobiology and senior author of the paper.

Caetano Reis e Sousa, head of the immunobiology lab at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute, sounds says the work is «exciting» but cautions that it is at an early stage.

«This gut microbiota has been linked to the inflammation that triggers obesity, diabetes, metabolic disease, and most of chronic health problems of the Western World,» said Yale's Richard Flavell, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and co-senior author of the paper appearing Feb. 27 in the journal Cell.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

«By switching certain genes on and off, prions could help bacteria survive environmental stresses rendering them less vulnerable to drugs, chemicals and other environmental assaults,» says investigator Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

Department of Cell Biology and Section of Immunobiology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Post Office Box 208002, New Haven, CT 06520 — 8002, USA.

Frelinger, who has just moved to the University of Arizona, where he is directing the graduate program in immunobiology, reckons he may have picked up the idea from successful women he knew early in his career.

«We set out to map out interactions between bacteria and the immune system in the hope that this could eventually lead to the development of an apothecary of agents tailored to modulate the immune system selectively and precisely,» said senior investigator Dennis Kasper, professor of medicine and microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

«This was an example of true crosspollination expertise and knowledge,» said Mathis, a professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

«Because we observed microbial effects mainly in the gut, we believe that a microbe - based therapy would avoid the collateral damage seen with drugs that wipe out classes of immune cells across the body,» said Benoist, a professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

At Johnson & Johnson the values that guide decision making are spelled out in the company's Credo, according to Anuk Das, assistant director of immunobiology at Centocor R&D, a Philadelphia - based subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

The research team, led by Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, decided to investigate using mice models of herpes simplex virus - 1, the dominant cause of genital herpes in the United States.

To explore these questions Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and her co-authors observed replication of the Zika virus in the vaginal tissue of control, wild - type mice (genetically unmodified mice) and mice lacking genes that regulate immune system proteins known as type I interferons.

«We were surprised at how profound the effects of feeding were, both positive and negative,» says senior author Ruslan Medzhitov, David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale School of Medicine.

«A handful of bad bacteria are able to attain access to the immune system and get right at the gut,» said Richard Flavell, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine.

Now researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg show robust evidence that not only the inherited DNA itself but also the inherited epigenetic instructions contribute in regulating gene expression in the offspring.

He and his team at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany used fruit flies to explore how epigenetic modifications are transmitted from the mother to the embryo.

Evans, along with Zheng, an assistant professor in Salk's Nomis Foundation Laboratories for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, and colleagues, set out to compare the immune systems of healthy mice, those with obesity - related diabetes and those with age - related diabetes.

Dr. Doyle is an assistant professor in the Departments of Immunobiology and Neurology at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Nguyen is a research assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and a research scientist in the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona.

«The paper provides a dazzling snapshot of the process of transcription activation — the process whereby a gene is turned on in response to an instructive signal from the environment,» said Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, who also was not part of the study.

«Preventing the degradation of MBD3 protein will make it difficult for myeloma cells to escape this class of drugs,» said senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, professor of immunobiology and chief of the Section of Hematology.

Dr Mike Turner, Head of Infection and Immunobiology at the Wellcome Trust, said: «Skin cancer is on the rise in many countries and any insight into the body's ability to prevent tumour formation is valuable in the fight against this form of cancer.