(from left) Co-corresponding author Paul Thomas, Ph.D., associate member of the
Department of Immunology at St. Jude, pictured with first author Pradyot Dash, D.V.M., Ph.D..
Our response to a study published in the
Journal of Immunology looking at how carbon nanoparticles (such as those found in air pollution) can alter structure and function of certain proteins of the immune system.
«A cure is a long way off,» but the prospect for some specific cancers does look bright, says James Allison, chair of the Department
of Immunology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Dr. Lu first gained interest in the
field of immunology in college during her first class on the subject.
Jonathan Fogle, a veterinary internal medicine specialist and assistant
professor of immunology in the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is one of 10 young scientists to receive a grant from the Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research program to investigate questions related to long - term survival with HIV infection, and the prevention of HIV transmission.
Prior to joining Ricerca Biosciences, she developed in vitro cellular immunology assays as a postdoctoral research fellow at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Department
of Immunology in Seattle, WA.
Allison,
chair of the immunology department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and executive director of its research center on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunotherapy.
Professor Tobias Bopp, Professor Edgar Schmitt, and Dr. Alexander Ulges of the
Institute of Immunology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have made major progress towards explaining the underlying mechanisms by identifying a previously unknown sub-population of regulatory T cells.
says Raif Geha, MD, chief of the
Division of Immunology at Boston Children's Hospital and the senior author of the study.
As well as lectures covering key
areas of immunology research, we have an afternoon dedicated to careers in immunology, giving delegates the opportunity to speak with individuals who have gone on to pursue careers in a whole host of different sectors.
Professor Hazel Dockrell, Dr Helen Fletcher and Dr Gregory Bancroft are all part of TBVAC2020 and based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), within the department
of Immunology of Infectious Diseases (IID).
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.
Today, Charité is ranked as one of the best research universities within the field
of immunology research, its publications in high - quality journals placing it among the top 40 universities worldwide (US News & World Report 2016).
In the spring, I looked at ways to take immunology closer to people and I have since had an opportunity to get a little closer to a few immunologists myself, having just attended this year's British
Society of Immunology Congress and run a careers surgery for delegates.
Head of the Immunology Division in the Department of Pathology of the University of Cambridge in 1989 and later head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford in 1994.
The European Economic Interest Grouping ECI - EFIS, whose purpose is to provide the legal and financial framework necessary to organize the triennial European
Congress of Immunology, intends to engage a core Professional Congress Organizer to manage at least two future ECIs, beginning with ECI 2024, the venue of which will be decided in September 2018.
Welcome to our last installment before Christmas of our 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.
«While still active in the area of infectious disease, in recent years Al became focused on clinical oncology and has been able to transfer his
knowledge of immunology into this important area.»
Immunologist Sandrine Henri
of the Immunology Center of Marseille - Luminy, in France, and colleagues tattooed mice tails...
Dr. Bot is the editor - in - chief of International
Reviews of Immunology and the section editor for immunology and immunotherapy for the Journal of Translational Medicine.
«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.
«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.
Crystal Mackall, the only woman of the bunch and a pediatric oncologist who previously served as the head
of the immunology section at the National Cancer Institute.
I mean, which would you rather read, an article from The Journal
of Immunology with the title:
Immunologist Sandrine
Henri of the Immunology Center of Marseille - Luminy, in France, and colleagues tattooed mice tails with green ink to see how waste - disposing macrophages in the skin would respond.
Rehermann is
chief of the Immunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, of the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
An American study published in the European Journal
of Immunology suggested a link between cannabis use and risk of developing cancer and other diseases.
Now, Jarjour and a team
of immunology researchers at Ohio State and the University of Virginia (UVA) say they have some evidence to support that theory.
The research was led by research students Daphna Rothschild, Dr. Omer Weissbrod and Dr. Elad Barkan from the lab of Prof. Eran Segal of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department, together with members of Prof. Eran Elinav's
group of the Immunology Department, all at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Naming Honors Money / Arenz Foundation In recognition of the Money / Arenz Foundation's donation of $ 100,000, the west conference room
of the Immunology Building has been renamed the Money / Arenz Foundation Conference Room.
The Bergthaler laboratory pursues an integrative approach comprising infection models and
tools of immunology, pathology and systems biology in order to dissect novel disease - relevant interactions between pathogens and the host.
Our research is located at the
interface of immunology and stem cell research and our recent findings lay the groundwork for new cellular therapy approaches in regenerative medicine.
The central
points of immunology are: understanding, identifying, and distinguishing the many different immune cells that are essential for diagnosis and therapy.
He is currently Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair of Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and Professor of Oncology and Member,
Dept. of Immunology at Roswell Park.
In 2015, a review article in Frontiers
of Immunology found that increased intestinal permeability, in addition to modern lifestyle factors, was capable of triggering a low - grade inflammatory state through the translocation of bacterial endotoxins.1
If you know a careers adviser will be available (for example, I'll be at the British Society
of Immunology Annual Congress next week), take along details of a job you are interested in and a tailored CV or application form and you may be able to get a taster interview focusing on areas which concern you.
A new study published in the Journal
of Immunology offers new insights as to why healthy children are much more vulnerable.
«The door is really wide open to a new way of thinking about brain degeneration,» Shatz says, adding that the
intersection of immunology and neurology warrants a lot more research.
He said that the most exciting
arenas of immunology today include new strategies for vaccines and studies of regulatory T lymphocytes and the innate immune response, which is essentially the most general form of attacking pathogens.
The breadth required to battle bioterrorism mirrors the integration occurring in other
branches of immunology.