Sentences with phrase «senior author of the study»

Is she thinking, «I'm posting this picture to share a fun moment with my friends» or is she thinking «I want to post this picture to compare how my body looks to my friends» bodies,»» says Stephanie Zerwas, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and senior author of the study published in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.

«Our study identified miR - 182 as a glioblastoma tumor suppressor that reduces the expression of several oncogenes that promote cancer development,» said senior author of the study Alexander Stegh, an assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee department of neurology and of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Professor Adrian Hayday, senior author of the study from Department of Immunobiology at King's College London and Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, said: «APECED is a rare and poorly understood autoimmune disease.

«No one had really thought that this was possible in solid materials, explains senior author of the study and University of Maryland (UMD) professor, Johnpierre Paglione.

Usually, only one of the two is biologically desired, but the issue is more complicated than that, said Dr. Uttam Tambar, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and senior author of a study outlining the reaction published online in Nature.

«The overwhelming majority of male infertility cases arise from inability to make sperm cells,» said Inder Verma, a professor of genetics at Salk and senior author of the study appearing in today's Proc.

The researchers, including Nesme and senior author of the study Pascal Simonet, took advantage of the ever - growing reams of existing next - generation sequencing data that are freely available in public repositories together with information about antibiotic resistance genes found in pathogens infecting patients in the clinic.

There is really no reliable method for recapitulating the metastatic progression from a primary tumor in the colon to the liver,» says Omer Yilmaz, an MIT assistant professor of biology, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the lead senior author of the study, which appears in the May 1 issue of Nature Biotechnology.

This is an unprecedented level of accuracy, which opens the door to individualized monitoring of HIV - positive patients and could facilitate the development of personalized treatments,» said Dr. Kaufmann, senior author of a study on the subject published in a featured article in the current issue of Cell Host & Microbe.

«These immature myeloid cells appear as a main source of circulating suPAR,» says Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, principal investigator and senior author of the study presented in Nature Medicine, who has been working on solving the mysteries of suPAR for more than a decade.

Dr. Patel is senior author of a study describing research that led to the drug's development, published online in Nature Communications.

Chloroquine has become ineffective against malaria, and resistance to the other frontline drugs is emerging,» says senior author of the study Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Oxford University.

Senior author of the study Xuetong «Snow» Shen, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, developed a unique model system to nail down actin's function in the nucleus: the actin - containing INO80 chromatin remodeling complex in yeast cells.

As senior author of the study, Theodore Slotkin, Ph.D., and a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke pointed out, their work highlights the unpredictable and synergistic effects that exposure to multiple chemicals can have on the brain.

«Childhood lead exposure represents a major opportunity lost,» said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a professor at New York University School of Medicine and senior author of the study published online in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Professor Oliver Howes, senior author of the study from the IoPPN at King's College London, said: «These findings are a wake - up call that we need to rethink the link between diabetes and schizophrenia and start prevention right from the onset of schizophrenia.

«We are trying to help birds help themselves,» says biology professor Dale Clayton, senior author of a study outlining the new technique.

«For the first time, the limits on nerve fiber regeneration were studied in an unbiased way across nearly all genes,» said Stephen Strittmatter, the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and senior author of the study appearing April 10 in the journal Cell Reports.

Dr. Soeren Mattke, senior author of the study, said in a press release that in combination with other initiatives, lifestyle programs could lead to overall savings.

«About 50 percent of the brain's pathways are tied in some to way to vision and visual processing,» said Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of neurology at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center and senior author of the study, which was published in The Journal of Neuro - Ophthalmology.

Changes in the composition and activity of the gut microbiome in early life can influence the immune system and these changes might indirectly lead to changes in asthma later in life,» said Dr. Anke Maitland - van der Zee, senior author of the study.

«For parents whose major concern about Ritalin and Adderall is about the future risk for substance abuse, this study may be helpful to them,» says Steve S. Lee, senior author of the study, a psychology professor at UCLA.

«The response was surprisingly positive across all ethnic groups,» said VJ Periyakoil, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine, who is the lead and senior author of the study.

«Evolution is one of the key concepts in understanding biology,» said Sara Brownell, senior author of the study and assistant professor with the school.

«The newborn mice inherited a very altered, skewed population of microbes,» said Eugene B. Chang, MD, Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Director of the Microbiome Medicine Program of the Microbiome Center, and senior author of the study, published this week in the journal Cell Reports.

«This is like designing a scalpel to precisely seek out and destroy a cancer — but with a pill and without surgery,» said TSRI Professor Matthew Disney, senior author of both studies.

«We are very excited by these results,» said the senior author of the study, Zubair Ahmed, professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at UM SOM.

«Since the loop has been found to be a key segment in prion protein aggregation, this site could be targeted for the development of new therapeutics designed to block prion conversion,» said Christina Sigurdson, DVM, PhD, associate professor at UC San Diego and UC Davis and senior author of the study.

«The women who had a diagnosis of a sleep disorder recorded in their medical record most likely had more severe presentations,» said Aric Prather, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSF and senior author of the study.

«It's already clear that this method opens the door to creating new types of compounds and new types of bonds,» says Phil S. Baran, PhD, senior author of the study and Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry at TSRI.

Hannes Stockinger, the senior author of the study, adds: «If we coupled this delivery method with screening of patient's tumours for the presence of a unique surface protein, which we can target with the Fab fragment - functionalized liposomes, we might be able to treat tumours more efficiently and decrease the side effects of the delivered anti-cancer drugs substantially.

said Clifton Ragsdale, PhD, professor of neurobiology at UChicago and senior author of the study.

«This was the first study to detect the recent TB outbreak in Zimbabwe, and the first anywhere to suggest an association between rising TB incidence and national economic decline in the absence of armed conflict,» said Michael Silverman, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and senior author of the study.

said Megan Donahue, associate researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) in SOEST and senior author of the study.

«The blood - brain barrier forms pretty early in gestation, so the thyroid hormone, even from the mother, is probably not getting through the barrier and into the brain, likely leading to developmental deficits,» said Eric Shusta, a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a senior author of the study.

«This study's results can have practice changing implications on how future prostate cancer trials are designed in terms of identifying the men for these studies who are at high risk for early death due to ineffective initial treatment for their prostate cancer,» stated Anthony Victor D'Amico, MD, PhD, chief, Genitourinary Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study.

«The state of the art right now is targeting two or three genes simultaneously and then looking at the effects, but we think that perhaps the gene sets that need to be modulated to address some of these diseases are actually broader than that,» says Lu, who is the senior author of the study.

«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

«Much like the spread of human disease in populated areas, urban centers can foster increases in multiple disease types in wild animals,» said McGraw, senior author of the study.

«People had trouble picking out the correct logo even when it was right in front of them,» said Alan Castel, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA and senior author of the study, who showed in 2012 that most people did not know the location of a bright red fire extinguisher near their office, even though they had walked by it hundreds or thousands of times.

Senior author of the study, Brian Kaspar, PhD, during his appointment at Nationwide Children's discovered that the AAV9 vector was capable of crossing the blood brain barrier when injected into the vascular system to deliver genes directly to motor neurons.

«Neither HPV vaccination nor program eligibility increased the risk of pregnancy nor non-HPV-related STIs among females aged 14 - 17 years,» says Dr. Lévesque, the senior author of the study.

Lee Gehrke, the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor in MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is also a senior author of the study, which appears in the Sept. 27 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Nolan, who holds the Rachford and Carlota Harris Professorship, and Butte, a former Stanford faculty member who now holds the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professorship at UCSF, are senior authors of the study, which will be published online March 22 in Genome Research.

Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.

«Our preliminary collars that we deployed in the first field season came up with interesting results, but only provided a couple of weeks of data; they needed to be more robust to keep up with the baboons,» added Dr Andrew King, head of Swansea University's SHOAL (Sociality, Heterogeneity, Organisation And Leadership) research group in the College of Science, who is the senior author of the study.

«While our study found that some stress - related effects on circadian rhythms are short - lived, others are long - lasting,» said William Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience and director of the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital and senior author of the study.

«We believe these master genes are responsible for traumatic brain injury adversely triggering changes in many other genes,» said Xia Yang, a senior author of the study and a UCLA associate professor of integrative biology and physiology.