Sentences with phrase «research human immune responses»
Dr. Anuja Mathew is the newest members of the iCubed team, joining the Institute in August 2015 to research human immune responses to dengue virus infections alongside world renowned Dr. Alan Rothman.
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She switched to human diseases for a second postdoc at University College London (UCL) and, for 4 years, researched the immune response to arthritis.
An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.
The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.
Dr. Gnjatic's research focuses on human antigen - specific immune responses to tumor antigens, in an attempt to define new targets for the development of cancer immunotherapies, assess the efficacy of these immunotherapies, and learn why they may fail.
She ultimately chose to study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the work involves treating patients with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers.
For example, investigators found that for the mouse immune system, metabolic processes and stress response, the activity of some genes varied between mice and humans, which echoes earlier research.
«HIV is a human virus,» Devin Sok of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute said in a press release, «but researchers can certainly learn from immune responses across the animal kingdom.»
She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.
During her residency in Human Genetics at the University of Bonn she pursued her research interest both in immunology and human genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association stuHuman Genetics at the University of Bonn she pursued her research interest both in immunology and human genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association stuhuman genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association studies.
We also encourage the submission of manuscripts that pertain to related areas of research but have broad implications for immune responses in all aspects of human and experimental animal biology.
Research Focus: I am currently working both on capacity building in Nepal as well as the human immune response to Zika virus and dengue virus.
Career Goals: I plan to pursue a career in scientific research focused on understanding the human immune response to various infectious agents for diagnostic and vaccine design purpose.
Research Focus: My research project is focused on the characterization of human T cell immune responses against DenguResearch Focus: My research project is focused on the characterization of human T cell immune responses against Denguresearch project is focused on the characterization of human T cell immune responses against Dengue virus.
To achieve its mission, the Project is developing a Bioinformatics Hub as an open - source, multidisciplinary effort with the overarching goal of providing an enabling infrastructure to support the data processing, analysis and knowledge extraction procedures required to translate high throughput, high complexity human immunology research data into biomedical knowledge, to determine the core principles driving specific and durable protective immune responses.
The department has an active clinical research program including the analysis of immune responses to vaccination or different infectious diseases e.g. M. tuberculosis in humans and animals.