22 January 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen
Angela Wandinger-Ness, director for education, training and mentoring at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the 2020 Lifetime Mentor Award from AAAS. (Neil Orman/AAAS)
Last February, Angela Wandinger-Ness, a pathologist who serves as associate director for education, training and mentoring at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the 2020 Lifetime Mentor Award from AAAS.
The annual award honors researchers who, for 25 years or more, have positively impacted the atmosphere of a department or institution by mentoring students from communities that are underrepresented in STEM fields, including women, African American, Native American and Hispanic men, and people with disabilities. For nearly three decades seven years at Northwestern University and 21 years at UNM Wandinger-Ness has worked to increase the diversity of students pursuing doctoral studies in pathology and guide her trai
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Researchers demonstrate in a proof-of-concept study that a phage-based inhalation delivery system for vaccines generates potent antibody responses in mice and non-human primates, without causing lung damage. The findings suggest that a safe and effective lung delivery system could one day be used for vaccines and therapeutics against respiratory diseases. The results appear December 10 in the journal
Med. This translational strategy potentially enables more effective delivery of therapeutics or vaccines while reducing the chance of toxic side effects, says co-senior study author Wadih Arap of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. In ongoing research, we hope that this work will play a crucial role in the development of targeted vaccines and treatments to block the spread of respiratory infectious diseases, possibly for the current COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the setting of underserved populations.