Pelosi Remarks Upon Receiving Whitehead Award From Research!America
... Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be presented with the whitehead Award at Research!America's 20th Anniversary ... a ceremony at the Mellon Auditorium. The Edwin C. whitehead Award for Medical Research Advocacy recognizes ... "What a tremendous honor it is to receive the whitehead Award from ...MicroRNA undermines tumor suppression
... FINDINGS: Scientists at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the ... gene p53, according to a study by whitehead Institute and National University of Singapore ... Zhou, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of whitehead Member Harvey Lodish and mentor to the paper's ...Cell pathway on overdrive prevents cancer response to dietary restriction
... FINDINGS: whitehead Institute researchers have pinpointed a cellular ... intake. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 11, 2009) whitehead Institute researchers have pinpointed a cellular ... paper and a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of whitehead Member David Sabatini. "We think that mutations ...Recipe for cell reprogramming adds protein
... an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, according to whitehead researchers. Researchers hope that such embryonic ... says Ruth Foreman, a MD/PhD student in the lab of whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch and a lead co-author on ... an MD/PhD student in the labs of Jaenisch and whitehead Member Richard Young, and Brett Chevalier, a ...Study Probes Difference Between Embryonic, Adult Stem Cells
... in these tissues. The researchers at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, ... Christopher Lengner, a postdoctoral fellow at the whitehead Institute. He and his team are now studying ... Preidt SOURCE: whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, news release, ...RNA snippet suppresses spread of aggressive breast cancer
... breast cancer in mouse models of the disease, according to researchers at whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Measuring levels of this so-called ... in the June 12 issue of Cell , Scott Valastyan, a graduate student in whitehead Member Robert Weinberg's laboratory, screened patient breast cancer ...Researchers Report Stem Cell Advance
... skin cells, for example," said Stadtfeld. Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch, of the whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies iPS ... Institute, Harvard University; Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D., professor, biology, whitehead Institute, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of ...Reprogrammed Cells Reduce Parkinson's Symptoms
... disease," study author Marius Wernig, a postdoctoral researcher at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., said in a prepared ... -- Robert Preidt SOURCE: whitehead Institute, news release, April 7, 2008 ...New Kind of Stem Cells Reverse Sickle Cell Anemia
... . Hanna is a postdoctoral fellow in Rudolf Jaenisch's laboratory at The whitehead Institute in Boston. "It's very fascinating that they're using these ... SOURCES: Jacob Hanna, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, whitehead Institute, Boston; Paul Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., distinguished professor, ...Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 17 top young scientists
... of more potent and specific forms of cancer therapy. Jared T. Nordman, PhD [HHMI Fellow] with his sponsor Terry L. Orr-Weaver, PhD, at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is working to identify genes that are necessary to ensure accurate and efficient ...Prolexys Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 1 Study
... Chief Scientific Officer. About PRLX 93936 PRLX 93936 is a structural analog of a compound called erastin, in-licensed by Prolexys from the MIT/ whitehead Institute in January 2005. Erastin was identified as a potential anti-cancer therapeutic in a screen against cell lines engineered to differentially ...Redefining what it means to be a prion
... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 2, 2009) whitehead Institute researchers have quintupled the number ... says Randal Halfmann, a research assistant in whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab, and coauthor of the ... the prion state and in some cases it's not," says whitehead Member and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...Whitehead member Peter Reddien named HHMI Early Career Scientist
... Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded whitehead Member Peter Reddien an Early Career Scientist ... is an ideal recipient of their support," says whitehead Institute Director and HHMI Investigator David Page. "All of us at whitehead and MIT congratulate Peter on being named to ...Calculating gene and protein connections in a Parkinson's disease model
... cells respond to stimuli. Using this new method, whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of ... Parkinson's disease's destructive pathways. whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of ... a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratories of whitehead Member Susan Lindquist and of Ernest Fraenkel at ...Statins may treat blood vessel disorder that can lead to fatal strokes
... ancestors, that predisposes them to CCM." whitehead and Li suspect statins, such as Zocor, Lipitor, ... genes, Ccm1, Ccm2, and Ccm3, has been unclear. whitehead and Li demonstrated that without Ccm2, the ... that regulates endothelium formation. Li and whitehead theorized that increased Rho activity in ...DNA methylation shown to promote development of colon tumors
... understood. Researchers in the laboratory of whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch now have established a ... in cancer. In the last decade, scientists at whitehead Institute and elsewhere demonstrated that the ... the development of cancer. The most recent whitehead study established a direct causal connection ...Animal and plant communication at the ESA Annual Meeting
... freely on one species of Acacia and feed on the plants' leaf tissue. Susan whitehead of the University of Colorado wanted to know just what makes these bugs seemingly invisible to the watchdog ants. whitehead hypothesized that the bugs might be acting in some way that the ants found ...MIT develops new way to fuse cells
... science, and Rudolf Jaenisch, professor of biology and a member of the whitehead Institute, report the new technique in the Jan. 4 online edition of ... of the Nature Methods paper. Heikyung Suh, a technical associate in the whitehead Institute, is also an author of the paper. The team's simple but ...Single virus used to convert adult cells to embryonic stem cell-like cells
... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 15, 2008) whitehead Institute researchers have greatly simplified the creation of so-called ... viruses. Bryce Carey, an MIT graduate student working in the lab of whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch, spearheaded the effort by joining in tandem the ...Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 17 top young investigators
... Daniel F. Jarosz, PhD , with his sponsor Susan L. Lindquist, PhD, at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is ... Alla A. Sigova, PhD , with her sponsor Richard A. Young, PhD, at the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is ...Scientists identify embryonic stem cells by appearance alone
... glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. But scientists in the lab of whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch didnt have to resort to these genetic markers in ... to convert specialized mouse skin cells into unspecialized stem cells, whitehead postdoctoral researchers Alexander Meissner and Marius Wernig have now ...New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (July 13, 2009) whitehead Institute scientists have developed a rapid, ... living cells. A novel method, demonstrated by whitehead scientists and described in the July 13 issue of ... Biology paper and a postdoctoral researcher in whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab. "I think it's a ...Protein-printing technique gives snapshots of immune system defense
... later the same technique would uncover the secrets of human cells. whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have ... J. Christopher Love, a former postdoctoral associate in the lab of whitehead Member Hidde Ploegh and now an MIT assistant professor of chemical ...New insights into cellular reprogramming revealed by genomic analysis
... genomic tools, a cross-disciplinary research team from Harvard University, whitehead Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has uncovered ... cells, said co-author Jacob Hanna, a postdoctoral fellow at the whitehead Institute, who recently led two other independent reprogramming studies. ...Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease
... research emerged from the lab of Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Dr. Lindquist is also an investigator at the Massachusetts ...American Transplant Congress 2009
... presentation. ATC 09 will present two State-of-the-Art Addresses. Rudolf Jaenisch M.D., who established the Human Stem Cell Facility at the whitehead Institute and is Professor of Biology at M.I.T., will speak on "Stem Cells and the Molecular Control of Pluripotency for Regenerative Medicine." ...Thomson Reuters Names 'Hottest' Researchers and Papers of 2007-2008
... Another hot researcher, Hong-Bin Shen, co-authored 13 of these Hot Papers. Also making the list, both with 13 papers, are Rudolf Jaenisch, whitehead Institute at MIT , and Konstantin Novoselov, University of Manchester. Thomson Reuters Hot Papers are derived from the Web of Science ...New technique produces genetically identical stem cells
... of identical reprogrammed cells to be used in experiments," says Marius Wernig, one of the paper's two lead authors and a postdoctoral researcher in whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch's lab. "Using these cells could help define the milestones of how cells are reprogrammed and screen for drug-like ...Interleukin Genetics Announces Management and Board Appointments
... biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and did post doctoral training in molecular biology and genetics at both Harvard and the whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research at MIT. Before joining the industry, she spent several years in academics as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical ...