Sentences with phrase «medical school and»

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

You want to put sounds together in a way that's easy for you to hear and to figure out what the other person is saying,» explains Gow, who is a clinical instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a professor of Psychology at Salem State University.

As for therapeutics, Xavier, who is also the Kurt Isselbacher Chair in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT, says that knowing which species are absent and which are flourishing in the gastrointestinal tract of children with T1D may help make it possible to slow progression of the disease after onset by revealing ways to manipulate the microbiome and, in turn, microbiome - induced immunoregulation.

«There is an ongoing national debate about contraceptive coverage requirements in private health plans in the U.S.,» says lead author Michelle Moniz, M.D., an OB / GYN and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar.

«This is expected to be the first of many new innovative therapies made possible by the Wyss Institute's collaborative model of translational research that will enter human clinical trials,» said Wyss Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I / II clinical trial investigating the efficacy of statins (cholesterol - lowering medications) for the treatment of patients with the dry form of age - related macular degeneration (AMD)-- the leading cause of blindness in the developed world.

«It is [still] possible that a population of wolves remained relatively untamed but tracked human groups to a large degree, for a long time,» adds first author of the study Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

But Luis Ulloa of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and his colleagues have been working on a new drug, called TSG12, that targets the smooth muscle cells that line our airways.

Horava, who now works at Triton Systems, collaborated with co-author and co-inventor Nicholas A. Peppas, the director of UT Austin's Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine and a Cockrell School professor who also holds appointments in the Dell Medical School and School of Pharmacy.

Mark Daly, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University Medical School and MGH as well as co-author of the NEJM study, notes that «It is extremely unusual to see these spontaneous deletions and duplications in a region that's usually a copy number — stable region.

In order to find the genes that guide that migration, geneticist Ruth Lehmann of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at New York University Medical School and her colleagues used chemicals to cause mutations in thousands of adult fruit flies then screened their embryonic offspring for lost or misguided germ cells.

Psychologists from the University of Basel analyzed 36 drug trials in cooperation with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and the American National Institute of Mental Health.

In fact, our study did show that people taking antacids are doing better,» says lead study author Silvana Papagerakis, M.D., Ph.D., research assistant professor of otolaryngology — head and neck surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the U-M School of Dentistry.

The study, published online May 1 in Nature Biotechnology, was led by Karl R. Koehler, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at IU School of Medicine, and Dr. Hashino in collaboration with Jeffrey Holt, PhD, professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

«We found that intensive doses of statins carry the potential for clearing up the lipid debris that can lead to vision impairment in a subset of patients with macular degeneration,» said Joan W. Miller, M.D., the Henry Willard Williams Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital.

The misconduct investigation is ongoing, but this week's court decision reveals some of the conclusions from an initial inquiry panel, assembled by Harvard Medical School and BWH in 2013.

The plaintiffs, Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri, had sued Harvard Medical School and its affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, claiming that the inquiry into their lab at BWH wrongfully damaged their professional reputations, derailed the sale of their stem cell company, and cost them lucrative job offers.

In 2010, researchers from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified a genetic locus on canine chromosome 7 that coincides with an increased risk of OCD.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

The results were obtained by the University of Basel and Harvard Medical School and were published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

«Nature has frequently already found elegant solutions to common problems; it's a matter of knowing where to look and recognizing a good idea when you see one,» says Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Bob Stickgold from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that people were better able to recall lists of related words after a night's sleep than after the same time spent awake during the day.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

«The collaborations that the Wyss Institute enables and nurtures between disparate fields, like mechanical engineering and molecular biology, foster new approaches to old problems that can lead to truly paradigm - shifting results,» says Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who is also a Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Miloš Judaš, a neuroscientist at Zagreb medical school and a member of CMJ's management board, denies interfering with the editors» work, and says that the proposed changes would not necessarily mean the ouster of the current team.

In the cohort study, researchers from Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, Harvard Medical School and University of Chicago analyzed nearly 23 million adult hospital admissions at 162 hospitals in 44 states over a seven - year period: January 1, 2009 through September 30, 2015.

«These self - healing, bioinspired actuators bring us another step closer to being able to build entirely soft - bodied robots, which may help to bridge the gap between humans and robots and open entirely new application areas in medicine and beyond,» said Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children's Hospital Vascular Biology Program, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University in the United States have developed a way to study the functions of hard - to - grow bacteria that contribute to the composition of the gut microbiome.

«Originally, I was interested in isolating these sodium channels from cells to study their structure,» said Seok - Yong Lee, assistant professor of biochemistry in the Duke University Medical School and principal investigator of the study.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.

«Hippocrates himself actually postulated this idea in nearly 400 B.C.» Anupam Jena, a physician and expert in health care policy at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the study.

Now Howard Weiner and David Hafler and their colleagues at Harvard's Medical School and the School of Public Health, Boston, have conducted a pilot double - blind trial with 30 MS patients (Science, 26 February, p 1321).

Dennis Kasper at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that mice inoculated with Bacteroides fragilis — a human gut bug that produces a molecule called PSA — were able to fend off colitis provoked by the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter hepaticus.

All of this has been a new experience for me, given my background as a laboratory physiologist and professor at a medical school and an expert on the gallbladder, accustomed to talking with world's other five experts on the gallbladder.

«Some of the differences in disorder rates are truly remarkable,» said Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the paper on mental disorder prevalence.

Lead author Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, a professor at both the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that while a prior study showed that older individuals could respond better to the high - dose vaccine, that study focused on relatively healthy older adults.

says Matthew Gillman of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School and Boston University have successfully shown neuroprotection in a Parkinson's mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood - brain barrier.

Alternatively, they should be current medical undergraduates of the National University of Singapore (NUS) or an approved overseas medical school and should have completed at least 2 years of preclinical training.

After eight years of work, we were able to identify an entirely new mechanism for how spinal cord injury weakens the immune system,» said principal investigator Dr. Jan M. Schwab, neurologist and physician at Ohio State's Neurological Institute, who collaborated with researchers from several institutes in Germany, along with the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Harvard Medical School and Boston's Children's Hospital.

«We examined the role of seniors» cognitive abilities in explaining this puzzle,» said J. Michael McWilliams assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the paper.

When it comes to the diagnosis of cancer, smartphone microscopes are reasonably accurate, according to a study conducted by Jahan - Tigh and colleagues at McGovern Medical School and Harvard Medical School.

said lead author Ifedayo Kuye, a student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School.

By unfolding into a cellular chain, clusters of cancer cells can slide through capillary tubes less than 10 micrometers wide, Sam Au of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

According to Professor Coffey, the Foundation Chair of Surgery at UL's Graduate Entry Medical School and University Hospitals Limerick, mesenteric science is its own specific field of medical study in the same way as gastroenterology, neurology and coloproctology.

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

«It's important for us to understand differences in disease risk, symptoms, and responses to treatments between sexes,» says senior author Carey N. Lumeng, M.D., Ph.D, associate professor in pediatrics and physiology at the Medical School and a pediatric pulmonologist at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

The initial answer seems to be yes, as has been shown in a series of physiological experiments published in 2005 by Bevil R. Conway of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues.

But in a new paper published in the open - access journal eLife, scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and colleagues have captured the action like battlefield reporters.