Sentences with word «immunologist»

With support from a Duke / NC State Translational Research Grant from the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Eward and colleague Jonathan Fogle, a veterinary immunologist at NC State, are working to improve those odds for people and their pets by capitalizing on aspects of the disease that are unique to canines.

«It's a very elegant study,» says immunologist Paul Thomas of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

If you'd like to explore a broader range of sectors, you can find a series of profiles of immunologists in academia, industry, the National Health Service (NHS), and publishing in a careers brochure produced by the British Society for Immunology (BSI)-- Immunology — a career for the future.

«There is every likelihood that the disease will reach epidemic proportions,» says Liz Glass, a veterinary immunologist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.

Dr. H.H. Fudenberg, world - renowned immunologist with hundreds of publications to his credit, states: «One vaccine decreases cell - mediated immunity by 50 %, two vaccines by 70 %.»

In a series of experiments in which they either added LT to dendritic cells in vitro or injected LT - exposed dendritic cells into mice, a team led by immunologist Bali Pulendran of Emory Vaccine Research Center in Atlanta found that the cells became «lethargic,» Pulendran says.

Dickinson — the Louisiana State immunologist who said she couldn't believe she's getting paid for the interesting work she's doing on the mechanism of cholera, among other things — credits her mentor, Seth Pincus, for making a big difference in her professional life.

Together, the findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.

Treating patients with an antibody called pembrolizumab (sold under the brand name Keytruda) caused these T cells to increase in number, says coauthor Kellie Smith, a cancer immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.

For the work, Kasper's microbiology team collaborated with immunologists from the HMS lab run by Diane Mathis and Christophe Benoist.

Although LT's new role is «exciting to contemplate,» says Harvard immunologist Michael Starnbach, it's hard to see why the bacteria would need it.

Macfarlane Burnet, a world renowned immunologist from Melbourne, was an adept illustrator.

Immunologists work in the field of immunology, a broad branch of biomedical sciences that deals with the body's immune system in health and disease.

According to leading veterinary immunologist Dr Ronald Schultz, veterinary medicine is not ready for vaccinations.

As a tumor immunologist at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Ribas specializes in the research and treatment of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Decades - old research by veterinary immunologist Ronald D Schultz PhD showed that immunity from most core vaccines can last as long as nine to 15 years, making annual dog vaccines unnecessary.

Inherited Neanderthal genes come in alleles that help fight off nasty viruses such as Epstein - Barr — associated with several kinds of cancer, says Stanford University immunologist Laurent Abi - Rached.

Kazatchkine, a French clinical immunologist who has headed the Global Fund for 5 years, will stay until March to allow for an orderly transition.

The following year, Yancopoulos, then a molecular immunologist also at Columbia, opened Regeneron's labs in Tarrytown.

An accurate diagnosis can be difficult early in the disease, says immunologist Paul Arnaboldi of New York Medical College in Valhalla, who was not involved in the study.

«We've known that this was a hypothetical risk,» says Donald Kohn, a pediatric immunologist at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.

«I don't think anyone suspected that the tenofovir gel would not work,» says immunologist John Moore, who works on microbicides at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.

Scientists have known about the beneficial effects of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much data available to explain what is going on,» says immunologist James George of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, an author of the new study.

The Münster immunologists found a test - tube alternative for this, too: they used the molecular biological method of genome editing to systematically «cut out» the gene segment relevant for VLA4 and produce the appropriate «deficient» immune cells.

Another is from Seattle global health writer Tom Paulson, on immunologist Bali Pulendran and using systems biology to unlock new insights into vaccine design.

As well as dealing with human illnesses, immunologists also work within veterinary sciences.

Several leading veterinary immunologists believe that repeated vaccination of a pet that is adequately protected for a disease can aggravate immune mediated and allergic disease.

That said, my experience with Australian immunologists is that they are not overly pushy of breastfeeding.

Today, Rudensky, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of immunology at Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York City, counts among the world's foremost immunologists for his discoveries on the molecular architecture of a type of immune cell implicated in autoimmune disorders, inflammatory disease, and cancer.

«If that switch doesn't happen, there are miscarriages,» says Gil Mor, a reproductive immunologist at Yale who was not involved with the work.

When immunologist Steven Macatonia went to California to do a postdoc, he discovered a passion for coffee that has sustained a whole new entrepreneurial career.

That is, until biochemist and immunologist William Parker became interested in biofilms, closely bound communities of bacteria.

These antibody tests are not perfect indicators of immunity, and most immunologists suggest that we do not place total reliance on them.

The finding is the «final piece of evidence that during an infection, a virus can bring about autoimmune disease [by molecular mimicry],» says viral immunologist Michael Oldstone of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who first proposed the hypothesis in 1982.

The research team, led by Emory Vaccine Center immunologist Bali Pulendran, discovered that mice lacking the amino acid sensor GCN2 are more sensitive to the chemical irritant DSS (dextran sodium sulfate), often used to model colitis in animals.

Many immunologists now believe this type of «desensitization» allergy therapy boosts levels of T - reg cells specific to the allergens in the shots.

Dawkins is the latest in a long line of stylish British scientific litterateurs that runs through immunologist Peter Medawar and geneticist J. B. S. Haldane all the way back to Darwin's original «bulldog,» biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.

Immunologist Ralph Steinman was honored today by the Nobel Committee for his discovery of dendritic cells, a class of immune cells that help rally the body's natural defenses to fight disease.

Reproductive immunologists combine the knowledge of immunology and reproductive medicine.

The choice of immunologist Mark Walport to head UK Research and Innovation was well - received.

My Boss With Stephen Hawking Disease 11 January 2013 Rodica Stan A protégé pays tribute to the humanity and resilience of immunologist Alan Houghton.

«This is great news for young scientists in Switzerland,» says immunologist Hans Hengartner, who codirects the University of Zurich's Institute for Experimental Immunology.

He speaks in the drawl of his native Texas, enjoys a good BBQ, and plays harmonica in a garage band called «The Checkpoints,» composed of other immunologists.

But new immunosuppressant drug regimens and a wealth of new genetically engineered pig varieties have changed the equation, says transplant immunologist David Cooper of the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

James Allison, a Houston - based immunologist, had already won a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and more recently he scooped up the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, an award that honors outstanding research in biology or biochemistry.

Puppies, like adult dogs, need just one vaccine that works, what immunologists call a «single immunizing dose.»

Jiri Mestecky, a mucosal immunologist based at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, says the MucoJet «looks attractive.»

Human trials are just getting under way, but the primate results are «really, truly amazing,» says transplant immunologist Norma Kenyon of the University of Miami in Florida.