LSUHSC research finds single gene controls growth of some cancers

...was funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium, and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and parasitology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine. "It is our hope that this research will lead to new ways of controlling EBV-associated...

Heartworm CD by Merial Offers Unique Approach to Managing this Deadly Condition

... is still a significant amount of uncertainty on the complex topic of heartworm among veterinarians," said Dr. John McCall, Professor Emeritus of parasitology at the University of Georgia, School of Veterinary Medicine. "The CD is based on prevalent questions veterinarians often ask about heartworm infe...

FDLI Names 2009 Distinguished Service and Leadership Award Recipients

...us Award in 1996. Dr. Lumpkin received his bachelor's degree from Davidson College , his M.D. from Wake Forest University , and his M.Sc. in medical parasitology from the University of London. Sanford A. Miller , Ph.D., the recipient in the consulting category, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Foo...

LA BioMed to honor 3 of its legendary

...CLA, he worked with the faculty of the Division of parasitology in the Department of Infectious Diseases. His summer parasitology research project in Guatemala was interrupted when...LA Medical Center, Turner rejoined the Division of parasitology as a faculty member and began his academic teachin...

Manipulating the immune system like a parasite

...th and Ageing. The grant will be divided equally between Garvan and UTS over a period of two years, and will combine Professor Daltons expertise in parasitology and biochemistry with Dr Greys expertise as a transplant immunologist. When parasites invade humans, they secrete compounds that appear to change t...

A product for the detection and characterization of brucellosis launched at University of Navarra

... This release is available in Spanish . Ignacio Lpez-Goi and David Garca, researchers of the Department of Microbiology and parasitology of the University of Navarra, have launched a new product for the detection and characterization of the Brucella bacteria, which is the causative agen...

Piedmont Pharmaceuticals Secures $8.5 Million Investment

...Piedmont Pharmaceuticals LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on parasitology and drug delivery systems for human and companion animal use, has secured $...any focused on human and animal health therapeutics in such select areas as parasitology and the treatment of infection. The company's currently commercialized prod...

STD Trichomoniasis-Gene of Parasite Decoded

... A team of researchers led by Jane Carlton, Ph.D., a parasite specialist and an associate professor in the department of Medical parasitology at New York University// School of Medicine, have successfully decoded the genome of the parasite causing Trichomoniasis, one of the world's most comm...

Avian Flu Unlikely to Spread Through Water Systems

...nfluenza outbreak and everyone were sick, is it going to come into the plant and infect them and others," said co-author Dwight Bowman, a professor of parasitology at Cornell. To test the effectiveness of UV radiation for killing the H5N2 virus, the researchers exposed the virus in drinking water as well as...

Toxoplasma Linked to a Protein

...h diverse strain could contaminate different types of host cell with the least damage. According to Professor John Barrett, a senior lecturer in parasitology at the University of Aberystwyth, "The effect on the fetus can be very serious and there is a reliable test for Toxoplasma, so in these higher risk gr...

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Dr. Peter Nash, Ph.D. Joins Mach One Corporation as Chief Scientist

... for use in the dairy, beef, poultry, and swine markets. Dr. Nash is a microbiologist with over 30 years of experience in 13 areas of medicine, from parasitology to immunology to virology. He has been a professor at the Indiana School of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Minnesota State University, Mankato....

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American Society for Microbiology honors Lynne S. Garcia

...e than 30 years. She has authored five editions of ASM's Diagnostic Medical parasitology and is editor-in-chief of Clinical Laboratory Management, published by ASM Press. She has been the parasitology section editor for several editions of ASM's Manual of Clinical Microbiolog...

Tiny details in three dimensions

...r motility system. The research group headed by Professor Reinhard Wallich, Institute of Immunology, and Dr. Friedrich Frischknecht, Department of parasitology at the Hygiene Institute of Heidelberg University Hospital has published its findings in cooperation with colleagues from Munich and Freiburg in " Mol...

Boost from McGill, Gates Foundation helps Africans control pharma research

... This release is available in French . A McGill University parasitology researcher has received a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation to help establish locally controlled pharmaceutical-research programs in Botswana a...

Ultraviolet light helps to secure water supply

... the most common causes of waterborne disease within humans in the United States. Thanks to collaboration between researchers at the Laboratory of parasitology of the University Denis Diderot, and the VEOLIA Research Center, the efficacy of UV light was demonstrated in large scale tests with pilot equipment. ...

Potent possibilities for parasite attack

...al and eukaryotic intracellular pathogens," said Jeremy Mottram, a collaborator on the project who is a Professor in the Wellcome Centre for Molecular parasitology at the University of Glasgow. Some families of genes that determine the properties of the parasite cell surface have grown in number and some dec...

Scientists sequence genome of parasite responsible for common sexually transmitted infection

...ch (TIGR), a not-for-profit research organization based in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Carlton is now an associate professor in the Department of Medical parasitology at New York University's School of Medicine. Although it is not entirely clear why the genome is so large and repetitive, researchers theorize t...

Pattern of human Ebola outbreaks linked to wildlife and climate

... the extent of human exposure to Ebola within Gabon, Lahm collaborated with Maryvonne Kombila, the director of the Department of Tropical Medicine and parasitology at the University of Health Sciences in Libreville, Gabon and with Robert Swanepoel, the director of the Special Pathogens Branch of the National Inst...

Impressive new Impact Factors for BioMed Central's open-access journals

...r best work." Malaria Journal, with a first Impact Factor of 2.14, is the number two journal in the Tropical Medicine field, and number five in the parasitology category. Launched in 2001, Malaria Journal was one of the first journals started as part of BioMed Central's independent journal program, and is the ...

A vaccine to kill tapeworm

...borators in Lima, Peru, now have plans for larger field trials in which the pigs will be allowed to forage as normal, they reported at a conference on parasitology in Melbourne last week. At the moment, two vaccinations about one month apart provide several months of immunity. The team's aim is to provide lifelon...

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The Plasmodium vivax genome provides new routes and challenges in the global fight against malaria

...study also published in Nature in 2001. The principal author of the study is Dr. Jane M. Carlton , Associate Professor of the Department of Medical parasitology of the New York University Medical Center, and formerly of TIGR. The main institution funding the study was the National Institute of Allergy and Infe...

Pharmasset Appoints Michael Rogers as Chief Development Officer

... "His experience and demonstrated leadership will be of great benefit to our product development teams." Dr. Rogers received his doctorate in medical parasitology and a Master of Public Health degree in medical microbiology from the University of North Carolina. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical...

WHO Introduces the Helminth Drug Initiative With Special Supplement in the Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

...s. Consultation meetings organised by the WHO Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Programme in collaboration with the Japanese Society of parasitology led to the establishment of the Helminth Drug Initiative (HDI), which aims to facilitate R&D against human parasitic worm infections. In a freely ava...

Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun

...3751377 (1996). 18. Zahner, H. and Wegerhof, P. H., Z. Parasitenkd., 71 , 583593 (1985). 19. Zahner, H., Hobom, G. and Stirm, S., parasitology Today (Review), 11 , 116120 (1995). Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungs...

Biolistic Gene Transfer to Generate Transgenic Schistosomes, Rev A

... gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni is regulated by pairing, parasitology 115, 635640 (1997) Hara T et al., Effective gene transfer into Tr...) Savioli L et al., Control of schistosomiasis a global picture, parasitology Today 13, 444448 (1997) Schiedlmeier B et al., Nuclear...

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...dlin, Colin Dale, Alan S. Robinsonand and Scott L. O’Neill (2001), Prospects for control of African trypanosomiasis by tsetse vector, TRENDS in parasitology , 17 (1), pp. 29-35. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11137738&dopt=Abstract Announces...

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