Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...nd a professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UC...ll University Medical College and his doctorate in immunology and cell biology from The Rockefeller University. He completed a residency in internal medicine at U...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in Nelson's lab. "In addition, one of these host cell proteins pointed us to sites in the cell where viruses are assembled." The prevalence of host proteins in the virus, Varnum said, might also suggest how the virus avoids detection by the im...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...ry F. Miller, professor and chair of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at UCLA, who holds UCLA's M...er Hodes, a UCLA graduate student in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, and a member of the research team. "This approach can be effective, especial...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...iller, Ph.D., professor and chair of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. Dr. Miller's team found that the genome of the phage that infects Bordetella bronchiseptica, a relative of the bacterium that causes whooping cough, contains a series of genes that change the part of the virus that binds to th...White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
...chool of Medicine's department of microbiology and immunology (1997). Dr. Scot T. Martin, who was assistant professor of aquatic and atmospheric chemistry in the School of Public Health's department of environmental sciences and engineering from 1997 to 2000, received the award in 1999. (He now is a faculty mem...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
... serves as professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. In the piece, Greene points out that basic research on HIV, a relatively simple pathogen with only nine genes encoding 15 proteins, are leading to compelling new therapies that deny the initial entry of...Researchers find clues about how antibodies specialize
... "It's generating quite a bit of excitement in the immunology field and promises to teach us more about the immune response." Alt has spent his career exploring the immune system's ability to defend against a vast array of antigens through genetic rearrangements, as well as the mechanisms the body uses to suppr...Protective gene may enhance vaccine responses
...ssor of pathology and a member of the committee on immunology at the University of Chicago. "This could allow us to extend the duration of an immune response against chronic infections or to focus the power of the immune system on tumor cells, targets that have thus far been quite elusive." The researchers beg...Joslin Diabetes Center launches research section on developmental and stem cell biology
...ion will complement Joslin's existing strengths in immunology and islet transplantation research by focusing its research on the potential of developmental biology and stem cells to prevent, halt, and treat diabetes, and its complications. Joslin also announced that it has recruited two top cell biologists, T....Jefferson scientists find gene expression pattern may predict behavior of leukemia
...Center and professor and chair of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, looked at the expression of genes that encoded microRNAs (miRNAs), tiny pieces of genetic material that are thought to be important in the regulation of gene expression and ...New discovery may help transplants survive
...is colleagues provide new insights into transplant immunology and biology which go well beyond the eye, and offer new therapeutic approaches in organ transplantation and cancer treatment. Dr. Dana is clearly one of the outstanding physician scientists in our department," says Joan W. Miller, MD, Chief and Chai...Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...science and biochemistry. They hope to expand the immunology field at Illinois by developing a program for integrative immunology and behavior. "Right now at the University of Illinois, there are seven professors and research asso...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...toral fellow in the department of microbiology and immunology at New York Medical College in Valhalla (N.Y.) from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (N.Y.), which was led by James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA structure and the father of modern gen...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...olan, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He reports a new technique for getting AML patients on the right drug the first time in the July 23 issue of Cell. Although all people with AML have a cancer of the same type of white blood cells, those...Report outlines steps needed to lessen smallpox threat
...ox, because the virus was eradicated before modern immunology and modern human physiology knew how to address these questions, we don't know how the virus kills. "We also do not know how to treat smallpox infection without using antiviral drugs," said Harrison. "Thus, we believe research using animal models is ...Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
...IV," says Hildegund C.J. Ertl, M.D., professor and immunology program leader at Wistar and senior author on the report published in the July issue of the Journal of Virology. "The next best thing may be to develop a vaccine that stimulates the production of anti-HIV CD8+ T cells, which have been shown in other ...Lack of immune system protein prevents lupus-like condition in mice
...r of medicine in rheumatology and of pathology and immunology and lead investigator for the study. "Other immune system proteins are potential targets for new autoimmune disease treatments, but they all affect large portions of the immune system, making weakened immune function a potential side effect of any ne...UNC research accelerates discovery of novel gene function
...udy and an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC's School of Medicine. He also is a member of the UNC Gene Therapy Center. The study helps to resolve two bottlenecks in determining gene functions, he said. "It offers a quick and efficient way to transfer cDNA into a viral vector library, and......in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cell, immunology Professor Gary Bokoch, Ph.D., and his colleagues Cline DerMardirossian and Andreas Schnelzer at Scripps Research have described the molecular mechanism whereby Rac activation is regulated by a molecule called Pak. The Rac-Pak Connection and Its Rel...Jefferson researchers develop microchip to track genetic signature of cancer and normal tissue
...el Cancer Center and professor of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson Medical College, have developed a microarray chip onto which they were able to put all the known miRNA genes in both human and mouse. They found that each tissue they tested had its own characteristic pattern of miRNA gene expression. Th...