Immunology in Medical News

URI awarded $13 million grant to develop vaccines for emerging infectious diseases

... and who directs the University's Institute for immunology and Informatics, said the new Translational immunology Research and Accelerated Vaccine Development ... eight new staff members for the Institute for immunology and Informatics, and it will also result in new ...

New Five-Question Test Helps Assess Asthma Control in Children Under Five Years of Age

... issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology . The American Academy of Pediatrics Quality, ... issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology . About Asthma in Children Asthma ... Than 5 Years Journal of Asthma & Clinical immunology . April 2009. American Academy of Allergy ...

Drug rescues memory lost to Alzheimer's disease

... approach combining an understanding of immunology and neurobiology to uncover a completely ... in the July 15 edition of the Journal of immunology . For 12 weeks, Tenner and colleagues added ... as well as a member of UCI's Institute for immunology and Institute for Memory Impairments and ...

Gene's novel role may provide key to treating liver and neurodegenerative diseases

... Director Lam Kong Peng, Ph.D., who heads the immunology group that conducted the research, said, "We had ... role in regulating cell death in disease." The immunology team at BTI, one of the research institutes ... Executive Director Miranda Yap, Ph.D., said, "The immunology Group's venturing beyond the traditional ...

Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Might Fight Swine Flu

... published in the June 1 issue of The Journal of immunology . Basically, the drug enabled ... is a professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine ... College Station; June 1, 2009, The Journal of immunology ...

Immunologists identify biochemical signals that help immune cells remember how to fight infection

... DALLAS May 28, 2009 immunology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center ... said Dr. David Farrar, assistant professor of immunology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study ... said Hilario Ramos, student research assistant in immunology and the study's lead author. "It turns out that ...

Arthritis drug might prove effective in fighting the flu, study suggests

... report in the June 1 edition of The Journal of immunology , which is now available online, that mice ... a professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine ... . The Journal of immunology is a peer-reviewed publication of the American ...

Baylor Research Institute Receives Multi-Million Dollar Grant To Develop Flu Vaccine

... -- Scientists at Baylor Institute for immunology Research (BIIR) in Dallas, part of Baylor ... Banchereau, Ph.D., director, Baylor Institute for immunology Research. "With the new funding from the NIAID, ... specialties. Opened in 1996, Baylor Institute for immunology Research, a component of BRI, focuses on ...

Climate Change Could Sting Allergy, Asthma Sufferers

... Demain, director of the Allergy, Asthma and immunology Center of Alaska, and a clinical associate ... G. Demain, M.D., director, Allergy, Asthma and immunology Center of Alaska, clinical associate professor, ... associate chair for research, chief, Division of immunology and Infectious Disease, and director, Center for ...

Study reveals current multi-component vaccines may need reworking

... the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, ... within the Department of Microbiology and immunology and the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, ...

AAI honors Chen Dong for breakthrough T lymphocyte research

... (AAI). He will receive the honor and speak at immunology 2009(tm), the 96th AAI annual meeting May 8-12 in ... full professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of immunology and Director of the Center of Inflammation and ... Dong's subsequent major paper in Nature immunology in November 2005 showed that IL-17-producing T ...

New Treatments Improve Control for Severe Asthma

... at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & immunology (AAAAI) annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. ... clinical professor in the division of allergy and immunology at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New ... Dr. Jennifer Appleyard, chief of allergy and immunology at St. John Hospital in Detroit, agreed that ...

Exposure to Peanuts May Build Tolerance to Allergy

... chief of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology at Duke and a co-author of the research. "It ... at the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & immunology meeting, in Washington, D.C. About four ... chief of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York ...

Biomarkers detected for Chikungunya fever

... conducted by researchers at A*STAR's Singapore immunology Network (SIgN) and the Communicable Disease ... University Hospital, in research areas such as immunology and cancer studies. Associate Professor Leo ... patients. In late 2007, SIgN initiated clinical immunology research on Chikungunya led by Dr. Lisa Ng to ...

'Take Action, Prevent Reactions' at FAAN's Annual Food Allergy Conferences

... health and the director of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , ... is a professor and chief of pediatric allergy and immunology at Duke University Medical Center. The ... as well as chief of the division of allergy & immunology in the department of pediatrics, director of the ...

Immunology Center will continue to drive standard methods, better science

... The Rochester Human immunology Center (RHIC) has been awarded a $4 million ... enables RHIC to continue leading the field of immunology in a worldwide effort to standardize how ... the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and immunology at the Medical Center. "Although research core ...

Interferon needed for cells to 'remember' how to defeat a virus, UT Southwestern researchers report

... and in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of immunology , have potential application in the development ... said Dr. David Farrar, assistant professor of immunology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the ... Ann Davis, student research assistant in immunology and lead author of the study, said this suggests ...

Towards improved immunotherapy

... published by Elsevier this month in Clinical immunology , the official journal of the Clinical immunology Society (CIS), describes a new method that ... Andy Saxon", the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical immunology ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yclim ), "this ...

Childhood Food Allergies on the Rise

... pediatrics and medicine and chief of allergy and immunology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences ... Robert A. Wood, director of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, ... American College of Allergy, Asthma and immunology annual meeting, Seattle ...

Respiratory Leaders Urge Medical Community to Educate Patients Transitioning CFC to HFA Inhalers

... the American College of Allergy, Asthma and immunology (ACAAI), representatives from the organization ... chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical immunology in the Department of Medicine at St. ... The American College of Allergy, Asthma and immunology (ACAAI) is a professional medical organization ...

Powdered Milk Helps Kids Overcome Milk Allergy

... edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology . The study was conducted by researchers at the ... Dr. Robert Wood, director of Allergy and immunology at Hopkins Children's, said in a hospital news ... The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and immunology has more about managing food allergies . ...

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology devotes special issue to AIDS

... editors of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology are pleased to announce the July issue, ... research. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology ( http://www.jacionline.org/ ) is the official ... issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology at the journal web site, www.jacionline.org . ...

New Diabetes Research To Be Presented at FOCIS Annual Meeting

... Federation of Clinical immunology Societies presentations highlight important ... 8th annual meeting of the Federation of Clinical immunology Societies (FOCIS), being held at the Boston ... diverse specialties related to clinical immunology including allergy, dermatology, diabetes, ...

World-Renowned Scientists to Lead Immunology Course

... Copley Place World-Renowned Scientists to lead immunology Course Basic immunology in Medicine: Update 2008 -- This one-day course ... and MIT. Abbas is known in the field of immunology for directing courses and authoring text books ...

Researchers Pursuing Nasal Anthrax Vaccine

... professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in ... in the April issue of Clinical and Vaccine immunology . Anthrax is the infection caused by the ... New York City; April 2008, Clinical and Vaccine immunology ...

Children's Hospital scientists identify possible target for prevention and treatment of pneumonia

... of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and immunology at Childrens, identified for the first time the ... the Neils K. Jerne Professor of Pediatrics and immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of ... and immunocompromised hosts as well as lung immunology in disease such as cystic fibrosis and asthma. ...

Novel molecules developed at UB can boost vaccine potency

... at Buffalo professor of microbiology and immunology appear to have the potential to enhance the ... D. Connell, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology in the Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis ... in the scientific community investigating the immunology of these adjuvants. The researchers currently ...

Experimental Biology 2008 Today's Research: Tomorrow's Health, April 5-9

... Finn also chairs a symposium on taking care of immunology around the world, with speakers from the leading immunology societies in Canada, China, Great Britain, ... and other pathogens; and the question of whether immunology can cure cancer. NIH or guest-sponsored ...

Researchers find new way to block destructive rush of immune cells

... Ph.D., assistant professor of Microbiology and immunology within the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and immunology at the Medical Center, and lead author of the ... Engineering and Department of Microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester. The project was ...

Sponsor a Spring Point Project Pig for the Holidays

... in partnership with the Diabetes Institute for immunology and Transplantation at the University of ... Scientific Director of the Diabetes Institute for immunology & Transplantation at the University of Minnesota, ... University of Minnesota Diabetes Institute for immunology and Transplantation, visit ...

Breast-Feeding Cuts Food Allergy Risk

... of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and immunology in Dallas. Research has determined a possible ... health director for pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said in a ... part," Dr. Sami Bahna, chief of allergy and immunology at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, said ...

HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom to receive honorary doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam

... Bloom, an internationally recognized expert in immunology and infectious diseases, is a leader in global ... from Amherst College and a doctoral degree in immunology from Rockefeller University. He is a past ... Diseases in 1991, shared the Novartis Award in immunology in 1998, and was the recipient of the Robert Koch ...

New Round of Lupus Research Institute Awards Brings Promise of More Breakthroughs

... William E. Paul, MD, chief of the Laboratory of immunology at the National Institute of Allergy ... and chief of the Division of Rheumatology and immunology at Duke University Medical Center. "By building ... MD, PhD, professor of Laboratory Medicine and immunology at Yale University School of Medicine. About the ...

Beanstalk Capital Ltd. enters into arrangement agreement with iCo Therapeutics Inc.

... Ono, a leading authority in the fields of immunology and ophthalmology, joined iCo as chief scientific ... and as the GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Ocular immunology at the University College London from 2001 to 2006. Professor Ono also served as the Chair of immunology at the University College London/Moorfields Eye ...

Mathematicians help unlock secrets of the immune system

... medical advances for patients. The project, the immunology Imaging and Modelling (I2M) Network, is ... still do not fully understand how it works. immunology has traditionally been a qualitative science, ... can refer to and draw upon. Mathematical immunology is maturing into a discipline where modelling ...

Schering-Plough/Merck Pharmaceuticals Announce FDA Filing Acceptance of New Drug Application for Loratadine/Montelukast Tablet

... 1 American Academy of Allergy Asthma & immunology Topic of the Month: March 2007: Spring & Allergic ... 1, 2007. 2 American Academy of Allergy Asthma & immunology Tips to Remember: Rhinitis. Available at ... 2: S2-S8 7 American Academy of Allergy Asthma & immunology Tips to Remember: Rhinitis. Available at ...

Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology

... their findings in the July 2009 issue of the journal Clinical and Vaccine immunology . Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) is an important human peptide that ... peptide inhibit murine melanoma growth in vitro. Clinical and Vaccine immunology , 16. 7: 1033-1039.) ...

Scientists Zero In on Elusive 'Allergy Gene'

... editorial, Hugo Van Bever, a professor of pediatric allergy and immunology at National University Singapore, and his colleagues described the finding ... More information The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & immunology has more about allergies . -- Robert ...

The American Society of Transplantation Announces Dr. Joren C. Madsen as President

... time off from surgery, between 1985 and 1988, he studied transplantation immunology in the Department of Surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford ... Peter J. Morris and Professor Kathryn Wood. This led to a D. Phil. in immunology from Balliol College Oxford University . In 1993, Dr. Madsen ...

Obesity May Dampen Response to Asthma Meds

... study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology and an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health and the ... Hill Hospital, New York City; April 2009, Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology ...