Sentences with phrase «understand immunology»

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«New approaches to understand the immunology of graft - versus - host disease and limit its impact are urgently needed to improve the quality of life for our patients and increase their long term cancer - free survival.»
«This research is an attempt to better understand the immunology of patients with severe asthma and to answer the question of why they don't improve when taking corticosteroids,» said Bruce Levy, MD, chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at BWH.
We deal with highly virulent infections, and we don't have the ability to test things multiple times in natural settings, so understanding immunology helps.»
This realization «pushed one entire laboratory project in the direction of understanding the immunology of pregnancy as a model for immunity of cancer,» Markovic says.
He says, «Understanding immunology in its most basic form can help us understand the principles and mechanisms involved with how these drugs work.

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PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.
Her team has struggled to understand how immunology really affects breast cancer compared to similar results on melanoma trials.
Of course, there is clearly a contingent that doesn't understand herd immunity either, so I guess we really need to step up the basic immunology education in this country.
Lead researcher Joan Cook - Mills, a professor of allergy - immunology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, described the findings as a «major advance in our understanding of how food allergy starts early in life».
4 years of medical school to understand anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, immunology, statistics, nutrition, pharmacology, etc..
The best understood systems, in this regard, come from immunology.
«We did this study to understand whether, in addition to PM2.5, coarse particulate matter contributes to asthma development and morbidity,» said Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD, lead study author and associate professor of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»
The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.
Our understanding of human immunology has increased rapidly in the last decade, says Jim Tartaglia, vice-president of R&D at Sanofi Pasteur.
«These findings add an important detail to our understanding about how celiac disease develops,» said Sankar Ghosh, PhD, the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at CUMC, lead author of the paper.
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.
I can, however, understand the questions that drive immunology.
It is significant protection that we observed and we have all the immunology to understand how the vaccine is working in the system.»
«There is a need to understand what's happening with the existing live vaccine and potentially a need to develop a new one,» said David Topham, Ph.D., Marie Curran Wilson and Joseph Chamberlain Wilson Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at URMC and author of the study.
Doherty and Zinkernagel, now director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, «discovered the phenomena that the rest of us have been trying to understand since 1974,» says Harvard University immunologist Don Wiley.
I think it gives a framework for understanding how, once you do have an infection, the toxins are causing the disease,» said senior author D. Borden Lacy, Ph.D., associate professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and of Biochemistry.
The review's authors, Dr Jessica Quimby, of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Ohio State University, and Dr Dori Borjesson, of the Veterinary Institute for Regenerative Cures at the University of California - Davis, consider the emergence of this new therapeutic strategy and the current understanding of the biology and immunology of mesenchymal stem cells.
To facilitate understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans.
«Understanding how the herpes virus switches from being dormant to causing cancer is important because of the health problems the herpes virus causes worldwide,» said Gao, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine.
«We want to understand what enables the virus to invade the gut, cause inflammation and kill the immune cells,» said Satya Dandekar, lead author of the study and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at UC Davis.
Future work in this area will lead to a better understanding of vaccine immunology and how pregnant women respond to antigen exposure through the course of pregnancy.
This led to development of newer technology, called single cell sequencing (SCS), that has had a major impact in many areas of biology, including cancer research, neurobiology, microbiology, and immunology, and has greatly improved understanding of certain tumor characteristics in cancer.
Vaccine immunology is poorly understood in pregnancy and Tfh cell expansion has been shown to be a predictor of response to influenza vaccination outside of pregnancy.
The study published today in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology helps scientists understand how different antibiotics affect good bacteria.
That's when I realized immunology can really help me understand what may be different in Native Americans that's making some of these diseases much more prevalent.
«These findings add an important detail to our understanding about how celiac disease develops,» said Sankar Ghosh, PhD, the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at CUMC and another lead author.
The findings, which were published in Nature Immunology this week, provide the science community with a greater understanding of immunity.
Its internationally renowned and award - winning scientists explore the very foundations of life, seeking new understandings in neuroscience, genetics, immunology, plant biology and more.
Renal Carcinoma Immunology Laboratory: The overall goal of this laboratory research effort is to understand how renal tumors can inhibit the development of an effective anti-tumor immune response.
Dr Linda Wakim and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Professor Jose Villadangos from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, came closer to understanding why some people fight infections better than others during influenza season.
«This is a very exciting advance in our understanding of cancer, and perhaps a first step toward a personalized, precision approach to the treatment of glioblastoma,» said Stephen G. Emerson, MD, PhD, director of the HICCC and the Clyde ’56 and Helen Wu Professorship in Immunology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Although conventional immunology approaches are invaluable, integration of multiple layers of information, derived from distinct «Omics» analyses such as transcriptomics, and metabolomics provides a better understanding of the complex mechanisms of immunity induced by vaccines.
The New York Cancer Research Institute (now Cancer Research Institute)-- the first organization dedicated exclusively to the treatment of cancer through the understanding and application of immunology — is founded by Helen Coley Nauts and Oliver R. Grace.
We will combine methods from the fields of immunology, developmental biology and angiogenesis to understand in vivo the development and lineage - specific function (s) of resident macrophages, thereby opening new venues of research into the interaction between macrophages and endothelial cells in response to tissue damage.
About the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is dedicated to understanding the intricacies and power of the immune system so that we may apply that knowledge to promote human health and prevent a wide range of diseases.
Research in the Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis program is aimed at 1) merging basic mechanistic understanding of multidisciplinary pathways of host - tumor interactions and metastatic dissemination with novel translational opportunities for diseases diagnosis and immunotherapy, as well as 2) investigating mechanisms regulating immune responses in cancer and their potential therapeutic manipulation.
He made a series of fundamental discoveries that had a significant impact on the basic understanding of the immune system as well as on many clinical specialties, including cancer immunology, organ transplantation, and cardiovascular disease.
At the time, Thompson was director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and as a medical oncologist with training in immunology, he was studying normal, healthy white blood cells, or lymphocytes, to understand how fast - dividing cells make the decision to divide.
ABOUT LA JOLLA INSTITUTE Founded in 1988, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is a biomedical research nonprofit focused on improving human health through increased understanding of the immune system.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Levy's research has focused on monoclonal antibodies and the study of malignant lymphoma, currently using the tools of immunology and molecular biology to develop a better understanding of the initiation and progression of the malignant process.
CRI will present the 2016 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology to Ton N. Schumacher, Ph.D., for his contributions to our understanding of how immune cells identify and target tumor - specific neoantigens, and how this capability can provide anti-tumor immunity.
In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LJI) used single - cell transcriptome analysis to identify a hitherto unknown precursor for a poorly understood subgroup of killer T cells that is primarily found in humans with chronic viral infections.
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