Sentences with phrase «on immunology»

A branch of this profession may also focus on immunology and virology.

Zinc has three major effects on immunology.

Today, the Department of Molecular Imaging & Therapy continues to advance original vision, focusing simultaneously on immunology and on structural biology.

Steve's research interests have focused on the immunology of intracellular infections, and on the development of vaccines and diagnostics for both cancer and infectious diseases.

About the Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology The Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology honors a former CRI Irvington postdoctoral fellow in recognition of outstanding success in academia or industry for research that may have a potentially major impact on immunology.

Rowley, professor emeritus in the Department of Pathology and the Committee on Immunology at the University of Chicago, was a wide - ranging and imaginative researcher.

Its founder and director, Dr. Nicholas Halasz, is a noted authority on the immunology of organ rejection.

«The problem arises from autoimmunity, a condition that people with type 1 diabetes already have,» says Myra A. Lipes, M.D, investigator in the Section on Immunology at Joslin and principal investigator of a study published in the June 13 edition of the journal Science Translational Medicine.

«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.

Spellberg is currently working on the immunology, vaccinology, and host defense against highly resistant Gram negative bacilli, including Acinetobacter and carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections.

Not exact matches

Her team has struggled to understand how immunology really affects breast cancer compared to similar results on melanoma trials.

He has worked as a Research Assistant at The Commonwealth Medical College, where he studied osteoporosis, and as a Research Associate at an immunology lab, HUMIGEN, where he worked on inflammatory bowel diseases.

Lynch, who has a doctorate in immunology and microbiology from Ohio State University, spent two years there before joining DuPont as a research scientist working on tests for the AIDS virus.

He has served on National Cancer Institute (NCI) Steering Committees for Genitourinary Cancer (GUSC) and Investigational Drugs (IDSC)- Immunotherapy Task Force, and is a senior editor for Cancer Immunology Research.

Setting his sights on hacking the toughest challenge of all — cancer — the co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook, and president of the Parker Foundation has already accomplished something miraculous in a few years» time: getting the nation's top cancer immunology experts to work together toward a common goal.

Shire's focus on rare diseases paid off with growth in the first quarter driven by product sales in haematology and immunology

Looking Forward The prevalence of allergic diseases in the industrialized world has been on the rise for the last 50 years, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

At the annual meeting in February of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Dr. Gideon Lack of King's College in London, England, presented information from his study on peanut allergies which was also published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Allergy and Immunology says that most babies can start eating foods like strawberries and raspberries after introducing a few traditional solid foods (such as baby cereal, pureed meat, vegetables, and other fruits) without causing an allergic reaction.

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.

The Position Statement on Anaphylaxis in Schools and Other Child - care Settings by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology is also very helpful and informative.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Allergy and Immunology says that most babies — including those with mild eczema, or a family history of food allergies or asthma — can start eating foods like fish after introducing a few less allergenic foods (such as cereal, vegetables, and fruits) without causing an allergic reaction.

«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.

«Some chemicals naturally present in strawberries, pineapples or some insecticides used on fruit also bother some people,» said Michael B. Foggs, chief of allergy, asthma and immunology for Advocate Medical Group of Advocate Health Care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Allergy and Immunology says that most babies can start eating allergenic foods after introducing a few traditional first foods without causing an allergic reaction.

I am switching from B.S. and M.S. in toxicology to a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology with a focus on malaria vaccine development research.

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.»

Two others, who focus on cancer immunology, are due to arrive at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School this fall, and an infectious disease researcher and a specialist in biodiversity are due in 2018.

I had already decided that I wanted to move on to something in microbiology and therefore took an introductory immunology course.

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.

She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.

«The goals of asthma treatment are to reduce the patient's symptoms, help ensure that they can maintain their normal activities, perform well on pulmonary function tests and minimize asthma associated risks such as future asthma attacks and medication side effects,» said Jennifer McCracken, UTMB assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, division of allergy and immunology.

For decades there has been some belief that pregnancy has an adverse effect on the course of melanoma, increasing the risk of its development, ability to spread throughout the body, and recurrence, said study coauthor Mark Faries, MD, FACS, who was director of therapeutic immunology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, Calif. at the time the study was conducted.

As part of the EU «ID Lyme» project, the infection immunology working group at the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borimmunology working group at the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borImmunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borImmunology at the Medical University of Vienna is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borreliosis).

«Later I regretted I did not study it harder because, I found, business I can learn, immunology I can catch up on, but how to motivate people and how to manage people with different interests is the hardest part of my transition [into business].»

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.

She focused on this exclusively, interviewing with various labs at UBC and finally deciding to complete her doctoral studies with Brett Finlay in the department of microbiology and immunology.

Brian F. Volkman, PhD, professor of biochemistry; and Mitchell H. Grayson, MD, associate professor of allergy and immunology; are the lead researchers on the study.

I am a clinical pathologist with a focus on clinical immunology.

A new study in Science Immunology suggests a different approach to eczema, one that stimulates a natural brake on the allergic attack.

asked Nichole Klatt, a University of Washington (U.W.) pathobiologist, whose lab focuses on mucosal immunology.

I was particularly impressed with the current work being conducted at Xi'an on SARS, the immunology of HIV, and the deliberate release of biological agents (relating to homeland security).

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.

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.

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, has recently published an extensive review article on the prospects of drug therapy for allergy.

But behind the scenes, a small cohort of researchers embarked on a years - long journey to understand why it hadn't worked when immunology suggested it should.

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.

The epidemic, which now has a firm hold on cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, is more challenging to stamp out than prior outbreaks that raged in isolated areas and burned themselves out, says Daniel Lucey, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center, who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

Focusing on basic research for the functional regulation of innate and adaptive immunity and on translational research for cancer immunotherapies, the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology has been conducting innovative research and exploration, and is becoming a rising star in the international immunology Immunology has been conducting innovative research and exploration, and is becoming a rising star in the international immunology immunology community.

«In the past, time abroad showed initiative, but in the current climate, promotion is more likely to be based on publications, the topic of specialisation... and excellent references,» says Tracy Hussell, education secretary of the British Society of Immunology.