Sentences with phrase «school gene targeting»

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In an effort to expand the number of cancer gene mutations that can be specifically targeted with personalized therapies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center looked for combinations of mutated genes and drugs that together kill cancer cells.

«This study highlights genes and molecular processes that could be targets for new therapies to treat peanut - allergy reactions and could be important to understanding how peanut allergy works overall,» said the study's senior author, Supinda Bunyavanich, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Bengt Nordéns contribution to form a strong research school in Gothenburg has been successful: as many as 12 out of his about 50 former PhD students and postdocs have become professors, abroad or at other Swedish universities, and three have returned to contribute a forceful environment with their own profiles within the Department: Prof Bo Albinsson (femtosecond spectroscopy and fundamentals of electron transfer), Prof Per Lincoln (new transition - metal - based DNA ligands and statistical mechanics for gene targeting), Prof Björn Åkerman (fundamentals and applications of DNA physical chemistry).

The genes involved encode proteins that control the activity of a very important and ubiquitous class of molecules that are a major target of pharmacologic agents across medicine,» says Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD, an attending physician and instructor of neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania.

Ana got her PhD at ICGEB and Osaka University on strategies for optimization of HBsAg expression in Pichia pastoris under the direction of Dr. Navin Khanna, and she did postdoctoral work woth Prof. Rolf Jessberger at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where she carried out a project aimed at deciphering the mechanisms of gene targeting by recombinant adeno - associated virus in human cells.

University of Michigan Medical School researchers have identified bacterial genes that help the infections spread, providing a potential new target for treating UTIs, a global public health concern mostly affecting women.

Research conducted by Jian - Hua Luo, M.D., Ph.D. of the Pittsburgh School of Medicine is the first time gene editing has been used to specifically target cancer fusion genes, which are hybrid genes discovered in a wide array of solid tumors1.

«If we understand how this UV - resistant gene functions and the processes by which cells repair themselves after ultraviolet damage, then we could find targets for drugs to revert a misguided mechanism back to normal conditions,» said Chengyu Liang, the study's senior author and an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.