Dr. Michael Snyder
The advisory council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases added five new members:
Dr. Mark Nelson, University of Vermont College of Medicine distinguished professor and chair in the department of pharmacology, joined the council’s kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases subcommittee.
Dr. David Penson, the Hamilton and Howd chair of urologic oncology, chair of and professor in the department of urologic surgery, medicine and health policy, and director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research at Vanderbilt University, joined the kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases subcommittee.
Ceciel Rooker, president and executive director of the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, joined the digestive diseases and nutrition subcommittee.
WHO team visits Wuhan Institute of Virology on COVID-19 origins investigation mission ANI | Updated: Feb 03, 2021 13:33 IST
Wuhan [China], February 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday, as part of their mission to investigate the origins of COVID-19, local media reported.
The WHO team visited the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the state-owned Global Times reported.
The team of WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on January 14 to investigate the origins of COVID-19, as the world s first cluster of infected patients were detected in the city in December 2019. The WHO team only began fieldwork last week, after completing two weeks of quarantine upon arrival.
Jared Tinklenberg, noted Alzheimer’s disease researcher, dies at 80
The founder of the Stanford/Veterans Affairs Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Tinklenberg researched new medications for dementia while providing mentorship to many. Feb 2 2021
Jared Tinklenberg
Jared Tinklenberg, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral science, a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research and a mentor to many, died Nov. 18. He was 80.
Tinklenberg was a clinician and scientist at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System for more than 40 years. He established the Stanford/VA Alzheimer’s Disease Center, which has been in operation at the Palo Alto VA for 20 years. He retired in 2019.
New Allen Distinguished investigators will tackle unanswered questions about metabolism and the immune system
Awards announced today by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group will fund research in health, disease, and technology development all centered on the emerging field of immunometabolism
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SEATTLE, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Just like us, immune cells need fuel to do their jobs. Despite the tight links between human health including our immunity and how our bodies process what we eat, the intersection of immunology and metabolism remains a poorly understood area of human biology.
New awards announced today by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of the Allen Institute, aim to improve that understanding by supporting four research projects in the emerging field of immunometabolism. The projects, which are led by 10 new Allen Distinguished Investigators working in teams of two or three lead investigators per a
Vaxart Announces Additional Preclinical COVID-19 Oral Vaccine Data and Publication
January 26, 2021 08:30 ET | Source: Vaxart, Inc. Vaxart, Inc. South San Francisco, California, UNITED STATES
New pre-clinical histology data show that Vaxart’s oral vaccine protected against lung inflammation in hamster models An article published in Nature Medicine reports data from a collaboration with Stanford University researchers on in vitro activity of Vaxart’s COVID-19 vaccine
Data from Vaxart’s Phase I COVID-19 trial expected to be released next week
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Vaxart, Inc., (NASDAQ: VXRT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing oral vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection, announced today additional results from its SARS-CoV-2 Hamster Challenge Study, as well as a peer-reviewed publication in Nature Medicine resulting from a collaboration w