Sentences with phrase «of immunology research»

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).

From 1996 - 2003 he served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Oncology and as co-Director of the Immunology Research Program of the Yale Cancer Center.

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.

Dr. Abbas received his MBBS (M.D. equivalent) in India, completed training in pathology at Harvard University, and then joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he became professor of pathology and head of the Immunology Research Division.

This process is a fundamental topic of immunology research.

Not exact matches

When people are taunting men of science with decades of research behind them, quoting a 6,000 year old book as «proof» of why big bang cosmology, immunology, evolutionary biology, particle physics and a myriad of technologies are «wrong»?

Medical experts in the fields of gastroenterology, immunology and genetics have been funded to research various aspects of coeliac disease, such as:

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

There has been a lot of press on bullying recently, and this particular research published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology brought it closer to home for us.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

Research reported in the April 1999 JACI (Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology) estimated that 1 % of the population, or close to 3 million Americans, is allergic to peanuts or tree nuts.

We wanted to share some of the amazing research in the field of immunology that many parents, even if they are making the choice to breast feed, are not aware.

«Solid food introduction from 4 months of age, including a wide range of healthy foods and potential food allergens such as eggs, peanuts, and fish, is our current best advice,» says Debbie Palmer, head of the Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research team at the University of Western Australia, who has published extensively on the topic.

In the 1980s, Dr. Ranjit Chandra at Memorial University in St. John's, Canada was already well - known for his research in the fields of pediatrics and immunology.

As a leader in medical research, he was elected as an officer of the Order of Canada, and served as president of the Nutritional Immunology & Allergy Center in India.

The research, which came out of the Department of Immunology at Monash University in Australia, put three groups of mice and their babies to the test.

Rep. Louise Slaughter says the school is getting $ 450,000 for immunology research from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

I see the day - to - day impact the immunology laboratory has, but, on top of that, I'm getting to do fairly cutting - edge research.»

But once they got wind of his expertise — he had done postdocs in immunology and receptor signaling at Vanderbilt University and at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, respectively — «they changed the job description a bit and made the offer to me to expand the position to manage the research building.»

Leaders from several of the main institutes at this biotechnology hotspot described research highlights in fields spanning neuroscience, agriculture and immunology.

Novartis uses a collaborative model with teams of people from many disciplines — including genetics, immunology, informatics, and chemistry — so Sabatos - Peyton recommends preparing for an industry career by «learning good basic research and scientific interrogation skills.»

Read about the innovative research being conducted at the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology of the Second Military Hospital in China.

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.

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.

Her work in protein research at Hunter and her grandmother's recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer sparked an interest in cancer biology and immunology, but Rezende is eager to sample other fields.

Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»

«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.

The researchers and specialists from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology of MedUni Vienna are now conducting a new research project to identify the whole spectrum of pathogens in ticks and to follow the diagnosis and treatment of affected patients.

«Immunology is rapidly evolving, so there are lots of opportunities in basic research and applications,» McKean said.

These concerns push immunology — the biological system of defense — to the forefront of today's basic research and applied technology.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

Dr Florent Ginhoux, Dr Andreas Schlitzer and colleagues from the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), a research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) in Singapore, together with Dr Shalin Naik and Mr Jaring Schreuder from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, discovered each subtype of dendritic cell had its own, unique pareresearch institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) in Singapore, together with Dr Shalin Naik and Mr Jaring Schreuder from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, discovered each subtype of dendritic cell had its own, unique pareResearch (A * STAR) in Singapore, together with Dr Shalin Naik and Mr Jaring Schreuder from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, discovered each subtype of dendritic cell had its own, unique parent cell.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

The initiative is designed to stimulate collaborative research at the interface of computing and the sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, materials science, immunology, and ecology.

Tobias Polte and his team from the Department of Environmental Immunology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) collaborated with Jan Simon and his colleagues from the Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the University of Leipzig and have recently been successful in discovering a molecule that plays a significant role in the development of allergic airway inflammation — as demonstrated in their recent publication in Nature Communications.

After receiving her Ph.D. in immunology from the Open University, United Kingdom, where she researched the identification of transcriptional factors regulating the unique phenotype of the human blood — brain barrier, she joined the Roche Brain Shuttle program as a postdoctoral fellow.

A new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) looks at the research and answers the question.

«We hypothesized that virus - like DNA sequences inherent in our own genomes or the RNA transcripts they produce might be driving the production of interferon and contributing to disease,» said Dr. Crow, chair, Department of Medicine, and Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research at HSS.

«Students interested in this area could enter into any number of fields in addition to immunology research, including public health, epidemiology, and health economics,» she says.

«So there has been a lot of interest in the diabetes research community: If you can target those antigen - presenting B - cells, that could be potentially a very effective disease intervention,» says JAX Professor David Serreze, Ph.D., lead author of a highlighted study published in the Journal of Immunology.

Rao has an interest in entrepreneurship that grew out of his Ph.D. research, but Foldi doesn't expect her doctorate in immunology to directly affect her medical career.

«What we want this technology to achieve is confidence to switch to single embryo transfers instead of the practice of transferring multiple embryos without [an accompanying] reduction in pregnancy rate,» study co-authors Gayle Jones and David Cram, senior research scientists in immunology and stem cells at Monash University in Australia, wrote in an e-mail.

In contrast, JST, with an annual operating budget of approximately ¥ 118 billion (US$ 1.5 billion), sponsors research that is top down, aligning with the annual strategic objectives of MEXT, such as developing advanced materials, achieving a low - carbon society, and advancing immunology.

Brad Spellberg's research interests are diverse, ranging from basic immunology and vaccinology, to pure clinical and outcomes research, to process improvement work related to delivery of care, focusing on safety net hospitals.

«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.

New research by a team of investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) directed by Xue - Zhong Yu, M.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota, demonstrates that one particular family of microRNAs (miRs), called miR -17-92, is responsible for the T - cell and B - cell pathogenicity that causes GVHD.

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.

«This research took place at the intersection of microbiology, immunology and genetics, which is illustrative of the complex and synergistic ways in which multiple organs and organ systems operate in the body.»

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver DResearch, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.