Sentences with phrase «immunology program»

«Our data provide proof of concept that DMAb engineered DNA plasmids can be successfully used to target important cancers,» said Kar Muthumani, M.Sc., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Translational Tumor Immunology Program at Wistar, member of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and lead author of the study.

«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UPCI.

«Studies pointed to STAT3 being an important target in the development of cancer,» said Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., the Christopher M. Davis Professor and Professor and Program Leader in the Translational Tumor Immunology Program at The Wistar Institute and lead author of the study.

We also demonstrate that the canonical understanding of organ rejection is not complete,» said senior author John Iacomini, Ph.D., professor in the department of developmental, molecular, and chemical biology at Tufts University School of Medicine and a member of the genetics and immunology program faculties at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Jenny Ting, PhD William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics Immunology Program Leader, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Director, UNC Center for Translational Immunology Co-Director, Institute of Inflammatory Disease University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Vice President, Scientific Operations Herbert Kean, M.D., Family Endowed Chair Professor Director, HIV - 1 Immunopathogenesis Laboratory Professor, Translational Tumor Immunology Program Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center Associate Director for Shared Facilities, Wistar Cancer Center

She was also professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she headed one of the world's premier immunology programs.

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

Dr. Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Program and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

In 2006, a team of Memorial Sloan Kettering investigators led by James P. Allison, former Chair of the Sloan Kettering Institute Immunology Program, was elected as one of six research groups across the country to share a $ 120 million gift from the Ludwig Fund, named after the late shipping industrialist Daniel K. Ludwig.

Dr. Lieping Chen currently serves as the United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research, Professor of Immunobiology, Dermatology and Medical Oncology at Yale School of Medicine and co-Director of the Cancer Immunology Program of Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, CT..

«What he showed us is turning the immune system on isn't enough; the crucial step is to make sure it doesn't turn itself off,» says Antoni Ribas, director of the tumor immunology program at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Currently she is a William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Immunology Program Leader.

«Pancreatic cancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone.

According to John Clemens, the IVI's director - general, its immunology programs have focused on research and supply of vaccines against diarrheal diseases, bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, dengue fever, and Japanese encephalitis.

«New insight into how tumor pathways regulate the anti-tumor immune response may help us to devise new ways for improving immune therapy,» said study lead author Amer Beg, Ph.D., senior member of Moffitt's Immunology Program.

«We had a hypothesis about how these treatments would work together, and when we did biopsies of patients» tumors we found that they were cooperating in just the way we thought they would,» says lead author Antoni Ribas, director of the Immunology Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

«Various injection therapies for melanoma have been examined over the past 40 years, but few have shown the promising results we are seeing with PV - 10,» said Shari Pilon - Thomas, Ph.D., assistant member of Moffitt's Immunology Program.

In 2005, Dr. Wherry was appointed assistant professor in the immunology program at The Wistar Institute before joining the Perelman School of Medicine in 2010.

Tumors are home to diverse immune cell types, some of which remain much less explored than T cells and could also control cancer progression» says Mikael Pittet, PhD, director of the Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science paper.

«This pathway is very important in balancing immunity against pathogens and tolerance against self,» says Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC, co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and senior author for this study.

«Our research shows that the protein GSK3 plays a crucial role in helping B cells meet the energy needs of their distinct states,» says Robert Rickert, Ph.D., director of the Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Immunology Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP).

He is a member of the center's Immunology Program and the departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.

«A growing body of research suggests vitamin E could make up for the loss of immune response caused by aging,» said co-senior author Simin Nikbin Meydani, D.V.M., Ph.D., director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, professor of Nutrition and immunology at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and member of the immunology program faculty at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

Our studies might also have implications for diseases caused by other pathogenic helminths,» said Stadecker, also a member of the also a member of the immunology program faculty at the Sackler School.

He actively participates in the Host - Tumor Interactions and Tumor Immunology programs.

Since then, he has worked on oncology, virology and immunology programs and successfully delivered two molecules into clinical trials as chemistry leader.

Much of Rudensky's career unfolded at Sloan - Kettering Institute of the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he arrived in 2008 and is currently chair of the immunology program and director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy.

«If we delay the start of the rejection response, it should be milder and more easily controlled and lead to less late rejection,» said Pober, who is a co-author of the study and also director of Yale's Human and Translational Immunology program.

From Yale, Sasha went on to take a position at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he would stay for 16 years, before moving to New York first as a member of the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and subsequently assuming his current role as the chair of the Immunology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute and director of the Ludwig Center at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

She is a member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Dana - Farber / Harvard Cancer Center.

The scientific goal of the Cancer Immunology Program is to understand the basic mechanisms by which the immune system is regulated in cancer and to apply these discoveries to the development of immunotherapy trials.

Dr. Antoni Ribas is the director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the chair of the Melanoma Committee at SWOG.

In 2016, Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., program leader of Wistar's Translational Tumor Immunology program, and his research team identified a marker for myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), a population of immune cells implicated in tumor resistance to various types of cancer treatment, including targeted therapies, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Director, Human and Translational Immunology Program, Yale University Vice Chair, Department of Immunobiology for the Section of Human and Translational Immunology Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine and Professor of Immunobiology, Pathology and Dermatology

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