Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
... and Immunology and a professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was today named a recipient of the first-ever NIH Director's Pioneer Award. McCune is among nine researchers across the country chosen to receive the prestigious award, established...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...h.D., a research 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 dete...Wisconsin scientists develop quick botox test
...Johnson, both of the UW-Madison department of food microbiology and toxicology....Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...hey work in other areas that combine biochemistry, microbiology and chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering students at Tech interested in biochemical engineering take a series of courses that cover all those areas. They augment that with experience in the biochemical engineering laboratory. Biochemical eng...White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
...rofessor in the School 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 i...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
...MD, PhD, who also 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 i...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...infectious diseases," she notes. Dadachova and her microbiology collaborators, Arturo Casadevall and Liiseanne Pirofski, believe radiolabeled antibodies can be used as an anti-infective modality and could be developed for the treatment of various infectious diseases. ( NUCL 10 , Monday, Aug. 23, 10:20 a.m., Penns...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...erated will complement biogeochemistry, hydrology, microbiology and engineering studies to help evaluate the impacts of contaminants and remediation treatments on microbial community dynamics. Karenia brevis a single-celled alga responsible for the natural saltwater phenomenon known as "red tide," which can pos...Jefferson scientists find gene expression pattern may predict behavior of leukemia
...'s Kimmel Cancer 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 ...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...d by Michael J. Imperiale, Ph.D., U-M professor of microbiology and immunology, have found DNA and proteins from the BK virus in prostate tissue with abnormal cell changes. Called atrophic lesions, these changes can be the first step in a series of progressive cell changes leading to prostate cancer. "Oth...Bad news for pathogenic bacteria: Scientists find protein essential for bacterial survival
...h, a study co-author and an assistant professor of microbiology at Ohio State University. The current study suggests that DksA is the glue that holds together two key components of bacterial gene expression a molecule called ppGpp and an enzyme called RNA polymerase. RNA polymerase carries out transcription, ...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...He was a post-doctoral 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 fathe...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...search by Garry Nolan, 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 blo...Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
...n microbial sciences." The report puts forth that microbiology should not be considered to be just another organi... The report recommends "To make the best progress, microbiology must reach across traditional departmental boundaries and become integrated with other disciplines."...UNC research accelerates discovery of novel gene function
...tigator of the study 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 vect...Jefferson researchers develop microchip to track genetic signature of cancer and normal tissue
... Jefferson's Kimmel 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...Researcher issues caution on live virus vaccines
...o Stephen J. Seligman, M.D., research professor of microbiology and immunology. His paper, "Live flavivirus vaccines: reasons for caution" appears as a rapid review article in the June 19, 2004, issue of the journal Lancet. Co-author is Ernest A. Gould, Ph.D., of CEH-Oxford in the UK. Flavi...Lupus Research Institute awards $3 million in novel research grants to further new science in lupus
...ee with Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Ph.D., professor of microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine, organized one of the most rigorous peer review systems to review the grant applications, with 20 of the top lupus researchers around the country participating. The scientists who were awarded $225,000 grants ...Researchers develop blood test that can detect genetic changes in progressive breast cancer
...t in his gun," said Dr. Jonathan Uhr, professor of microbiology and internal medicine in the Cancer Immunobiology Center at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study. "Obtaining repeated blood samples is a safe and routine procedure, and this test can help the oncologist determine whether a new genetic chang...Study suggests double punch could more efficiently kill viruses
...istopher C. Norbury, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. "Ultimately, our information suggests that vaccines should target both pathways that generate T cells, which are our killer cells, to allow the most efficien...