Stephan Kissler, Ph.D., is Assistant Investigator in the Section
on Immunobiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Stephan Kissler, PhD, Investigator in the Section
on Immunobiology and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Most T regulatory cells develop and mature in the thymus, a small lymphatic organ above the heart, says Stephan Kissler, PhD, an Investigator in Joslin's Section
on Immunobiology.
Scientists understand reasonably well how this autoimmune attack progresses, but they don't understand what triggers the attack or how to stop it, says Stephan Kissler, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section
on Immunobiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Not exact matches
Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in
immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research
on the effects of the Zika virus
on the nervous system.
«By switching certain genes
on and off, prions could help bacteria survive environmental stresses rendering them less vulnerable to drugs, chemicals and other environmental assaults,» says investigator Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and
immunobiology at HMS.
«The paper provides a dazzling snapshot of the process of transcription activation — the process whereby a gene is turned
on in response to an instructive signal from the environment,» said Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and
immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, who also was not part of the study.
Christophe Benoist, M.D., professor of Microbiology and
Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, (who spoke
on behalf of Diane Mathis, Ph.D., also a professor in the same department) discussed a molecule called I - BET that, when used as a treatment in animals during pre-diabetes or in the early stages of clinical type 1 diabetes, seemed to slow the progression of the disease.
The second laboratory continues to focus attention
on transplantation
immunobiology in mouse models and translational studies of human immunology in transplant recipients.
This research will have a significant impact
on understanding neoantigen - T cell
immunobiology and could improve the treatment prospects of pancreatic cancer patients.