Sentences with phrase «member of the immunology»

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.

Not exact matches

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Other members include colleagues from various AOECS Member countries in the fields of cereal and food technology, dietetics / nutrition, epidemiology, gastroenterology, genetics, immunology, pathology, paediatrics and psychosocial aspects.

Without that atomic description, «it was impossible to determine how the genome was being sustained through the spread of the virus,» said Z. Hong Zhou, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, a member of UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, and a senior author of the research.

«Until now, this amazing diversity has thwarted efforts to categorize T cell receptors that recognize and respond to the same antigen,» said Paul Thomas, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Immunology.

Still other journals publish work from the members of their scientific society, such as the American Society for Microbiology's Journal of Bacteriology or the American Association of Immunologists» Journal of Immunology.

«This work demonstrates the feasibility of using a single gene editing platform, plus the regenerative power of stem cells to correct genetic mutations and restore dystrophin production for 60 percent of Duchenne patients,» said Pyle, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

One of Beaudet's graduate students — Linyan Meng — was writing her dissertation on Angelman syndrome and was wrestling with this problem when a member of her dissertation committee, Dr. Thomas Cooper, professor of pathology & immunology at Baylor, said he was working with a Carlsbad, Calif. - based company called Isis Pharmaceuticals that had anti-sense oligonucleotides that could turn off the antisense transcript that silenced the paternal copy of the gene.

Corresponding author Paul Thomas, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Immunology, and Heather Smallwood, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

«This study has changed our approach to developing a universal flu vaccine,» said corresponding author Maureen McGargill, Ph.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Immunology.

He is the Harder Family Chair for Cancer Research, Member and Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, at the Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center.

Paulos is an endowed chair in the Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, an associate professor in the Department of Immunology and a member of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.

Most submitted papers are rated for suitability by members of Science Immunology's Advisory Board.

As a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Ashley Moffett, Professor of Reproductive Immunology at the University of Cambridge and expert on placenta formation, said: «We know that the so - called Great Obstetrical Syndromes, in particular pre-eclampsia are more common in older women but it's still not clear why.

«If you can replace a natural population of dengue - transmitting mosquitoes with genetically modified ones that are resistant to virus, you can stop disease transmission,» says study leader George Dimopoulos, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Knowing the answer is important both as a matter of basic immunology and because NK cells, as crucial members of the body's first line of infection defense, are often the subjects of efforts to harness the immune system in protection against infections and cancer.

«It's not a ban,» says Warner Greene, an IOM committee member who is director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Vahedi is also a member of Penn's Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics Institute.

«We want to know what the basic function of GATA - 3 in regulating cell biology is, although it has been shown that GATA - 3 is important for the function of CD4 + T cell type to clear extracellular parasites,» said Yisong Wan, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

The study was published in the journal Nature Cell Biology by senior author April Pyle, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

«It's HIV going both ways, playing offense and defense,» team member Warner C. Greene of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology observes.

Dr. Offit is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of virology and immunology, and was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The research team includes Dr. Masanori Miyata and Dr. Ji - Yun Lee at Georgia State; Dr. Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences at Yale University; Dr. Koichi S. Kobayashi, professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center; and Dr. Hirofumi Kai at Kumamoto University in Japan.

Zhao - Qing Luo, at right, a Purdue professor of biological sciences and member of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and postdoctoral researcher Jiazhang Qiu look at a petri dish with Legionella pneumophila bacteria.

«We've optimized a vaccine against heroin,» said Kim Janda, a professor in the chemistry and immunology department at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and a senior member of the research team.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination

William Schief is a Professor in the Immunology and Microbial Science Department at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, Director for Vaccine Design at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and an Associate Member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

On September 1, 2011, Hyam I. Levitsky, M.D., a member of the executive committee of the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium, was named head of cancer immunology experimental medicine at Roche, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Other Gladstone colleagues who are also members of the AAP include Gladstone President, R. Sanders Williams, MD; Senior Investigator and President Emeritus Robert W. Mahley, MD, PhD; Senior Investigator Lennart Mucke, MD, who directs neurological research at Gladstone, and Senior Investigator Eric Verdin involved in virology and immunology research.

«The cytotoxic chemotherapy can first kill some cancer cells and enhance the sensitivity of the tumour toward ICB therapy, which then stimulates the effectiveness of the ICB therapy,» said co-author Gianpietro Dotti, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

He is honored to be back in Ann Arbor as a member of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary - Treasurer, the Editors - in - Chief of AAI journals (The Journal of Immunology and ImmunoHorizons), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs on the financial standing of AAI and other matters of importance to the membership.

As a member of the CSI you will be eligible to apply for student, postdoctoral and junior faculty travel awards to the annual Canadian Society for Immunology meeting as well as travel awards given out every third year to attend the International Congress of Immunology's annual meeting.

This award recognizes a deserving member for a remarkable career of scientific achievement and for contributions to AAI and the field of immunology.

Professional Societies Italian Society of Pathology (since 1984, Member of the Council since 2010), Italian Society of Immunology (since 1985), British Society for Immunology (since 1990), American Association of Immunologists (since 2007), Federation of the American Socities for Experimental Biology (since 2007).

He is also an associate member of the Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a member of the Graduate Programs in Biophysics and Immunology at Harvard University.

Malcolm serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of Infection and Immunity (2012 - 17) and Journal of Advances in Diseases Diagnosis (2014 --RRB- and is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Microbiology and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and British Society for Immunology.

Littman is the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, a professor of pathology and microbiology, and a faculty member in the Molecular Pathogenesis program in the Skirball Institute for Biomedical Research at the New York University School of Medicine in New York, NY.

He is a senior member of the Department of Immunology of The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a member of the CRI Scientific Advisory Council, and is a CRI - SU2C Cancer Immunology Dream Team grantee.

As a member (and, currently, co-chair) of the Gladstone Postdoc Advisory Committee, I get to spend more time with people outside of my own institute (Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology), and everyone I've met here is a delight to talk to and work with.

«When it comes to translation of scientific discovery, this is one of the greatest examples of the century,» said Dyann Wirth, chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a member of the Alpert Foundation's scientific advisory prize committee.

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 Cmember 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 CMember at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Dana - Farber / Harvard Cancer Center.

Other Academy members from the Gladstone community include Warner Greene, MD, PhD, Director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, President Emeritus Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, and Gladstone President R. Sanders «Sandy» Williams, MD..

I did postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and at Scripps Clinic, and then worked at Scripps as an Assistant Member in the Department of Immunology.

Founding member of the British Society for Immunology.

Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters

Welcome to the second installment of our new regular monthly slot where we report on research from the world of immunology, highlighting work from BSI members that has hit the headlines over the past four weeks.

Writing in Journal of Immunology, lead author and BSI member, Professor Graham Anderson explains, «Post-transplantation, T - cell progenitors derived from the bone marrow transplant can struggle to enter the thymus, as if the doorway to the thymus is closed.

Welcome to our sixth installment of our new regular monthly slot where we report on research from the world of immunology, highlighting work from BSI members that has hit the headlines over the past four weeks.