Sentences with phrase «led emory»

Bruce Ribner, the clinician who led the Emory University Hospital team that treated patients Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, said in a recent interview with Scientific American that although studies have shown Ebola patients shed genetic material from the pathogen into their sexual fluids there is scant evidence they are often shedding viable virus that could infect others.

These discrepancies led Emory investigators to take a «back to basics» proteomics approach, cataloguing the proteins that make up insoluble deposits in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

He was also instrumental in recruiting Rafi Ahmed to establish and lead the Emory Vaccine Center.

Not exact matches

Like a yin to a yang, many large metros sport two leading EMBAs, including Chicago (Booth and Kellogg), New York City (Columbia and Stern), the District of Columbia (Smith and McDonough), the Research Triangle (Fuqua and Kenan - Flagler), and Atlanta (Georgia and Emory).

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

After completing her dietetics internship at Emory University, she worked as a clinical dietitian and, later, as the outpatient dietitian for a large medical center where she provided individual nutrition counseling and led multidisciplinary disease management programs.

Swain, in her third year as coach at Williams, led the Ephs to their third straight Division III title, a 5 — 0 victory over Emory.

The lead author, Karen Bearss, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Marcus Autism Center and Emory University School of Medicine remarked, «It's striking that children in both groups improved, but on measures of disruptive and noncompliant behavior, parent training was clearly better.»

Researchers led by Xiao - Jiang Li, MD, PhD and Shihua Li, MD, at Emory University School of Medicine, used genetically engineered mice in which the huntingtin gene can be deleted, triggered only when the mice are given the drug tamoxifen.

Researchers led by Emory University pathologist Andrew Gewirtz found that mice genetically deficient in an immune system receptor have altered gut bacteria, eat more than normal mice do, and develop features of metabolic syndrome.

Research led by Florida Atlantic University, in collaboration with the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration and Emory University, is the first to capture the economic burden of FTD in the United States and the results are staggering.

«That supports the hypothesis that syphilis — or some progenitor — came from the New World,» said lead study author Kristin Harper, an Emory molecular genetics researcher.

Scientists led by Hunter at Emory Vaccine Center / Center for AIDS Research teamed up with lead author Jonathan Carlson, PhD, and colleagues at Microsoft Research.

This research was led by Drs. Levey, Lah, and Junmin Peng, PhD, who was previously associate professor of genetics at Emory and is now a faculty member at St Jude Children's Research Hospital.

«We developed this treatment for patients with mild - to - moderate obesity to reduce the attrition that is common with weight - loss efforts,» said David Prologo, M.D., FSIR, ABOM - D, an interventional radiologist from Emory University School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.

To study the snakes as they moved through sand, Sharpe — from Georgia Tech's Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program — and undergraduate Robyn Kuckuk, from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, glued tiny lead markers onto the scales of the snakes.

«PTSD is a tractable problem that can be prevented and treated if we put our mind to it,» says HHMI investigator Kerry J. Ressler of the Emory University School of Medicine, who led the new work.

The journal Atmospheric Environment published the research, led by Eri Saikawa, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University and in the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

«I was somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the influence of being married has (on heart patients),» said Arshed Quyyumi, M.D., lead researcher and co-director of Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute and professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta.

«Diagnostic testing combined with clinical expertise is helpful in identifying a cluster of infections that may signal an outbreak,» said Andi L. Shane, MD, MPH, MSc, lead author of the guidelines and associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

«This study suggests a link between PTSD and cardiovascular health,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Commenting on the research, leading primatologist Professor Frans de Waal, of the Yerkes Primate Center of Emory University, said that the study «is one of the few successful field experiments on cultural transmission to date, and a remarkably elegant one at that.»

The research was led by Gregory Berns, director of Emory's Center for Neuropolicy.

The journal Palaeontology is publishing an analysis of the footprints led by Anthony Martin, a paleontologist at Emory University in Atlanta who specializes in trace fossils, which include tracks, burrows and nests.

Dr. Julia Painter, an assistant professor in Mason's Department of Global and Community Health (GCH) led the study with support from assistant professor Dr. Michael von Fricken; graduate student Suyane Viana de O. Mesquita (now an alumna of the Master of Public Health program); and professor Dr. Ralph J. DiClemente from Emory University.

«Our study is the first to compare a novel, telemedicine - based obstructive sleep apnea management pathway with in - person care,» said lead author Dr. Barry G. Fields, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

Lawrence Phillips, MD, from Emory University and lead author of the editorial, said, «Diabetes is generally diagnosed and first treated about ten years later than it could be.

«Our algorithm is a small step,» says Ilya Nemenman, lead author of the study and a professor of physics and biology at Emory University.

«Palliative care programs are increasingly prevalent in U.S. hospitals but the financial incentives for hospitals to deploy them are not well - understood,» explains lead author Ian McCarthy, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at Emory.

«It's possible that microRNAs go into the bloodstream and affect the potential transcription of these genes in the sperm,» says Brian Dias at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the work in mice.

«We found that these wildflowers produce one - third fewer seeds in the absence of just one bumblebee species,» says Emory University ecologist Berry Brosi, who led the study.

Ceramides can act as a double - edged sword, says lead author Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine.

«We see an ecological cascade of effects across the whole pollinator community, fundamentally changing the structure of plant - pollinator interaction networks,» says Berry Brosi, a biologist at Emory University and lead author of the study.

Instead of dilating and increasing blood flow to the heart during stress, in women the tiny blood vessels are constricted, leading to areas of reduced blood flow,» said Vaccarino, who is also chair of the department of epidemiology at the Emory University School of Public Health.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

As a result, «you are vulnerable to diseases you shouldn't be vulnerable to,» says Michael Mina, lead author of the new paper and a medical student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Psychologist Drew Westen led the study, conducted at Emory University, and the team presented the results at the 2006 annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

The research, published Feb. 25 in Nature, was led by Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences» researchers Drs. Benoit Chassaing and Andrew T. Gewirtz, and included contributions from Emory University, Cornell University and Bar - Ilan University in Israel.

Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population in a cleaner, more efficient way.

The work, led by teams at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Emory University, was published online Aug. 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

One of the most common insecticides used in the battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito has no measurable impact when applied in communities where the mosquito has built up resistance to it, a study led by Emory University finds.

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

«We tested the present - day receptors first, and saw that only GR, out of the five steroid receptors, had the ability to bind DNA repressively,» says lead author Will Hudson, PhD, a former Molecular and Systems Pharmacology graduate student at Emory.

For this study, Emory investigators led by Tansey and Jeremy Boss, PhD, chair of microbiology and immunology, teamed up with Stewart Factor, DO, head of Emory's Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Center, and public health researchers from UCLA led by Beate Ritz, MD, PhD.

Emory researchers led by neurologist Manuel Yepes, MD have identified a protein released by neurons while the brain is recovering from a stroke. The results were published online today in Journal of Neuroscience.