Medical & Health Sciences
Breezometer – One, Two, Three, Breathe
Air pollution has been a growing world problem, amplified by the ever increasing number of people and their consumption patterns. Now, technological progress and big data have merged to enable environmental scientists and engineers at BreezoMeter to address the...
Dr Laura Gillespie And Dr Gary Paterno – Investigating Breast Cancer At The Molecular Level
Cancer researchers Dr Laura Gillespie and Dr Gary Paterno, along with their colleagues at the Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratories at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, dive down obscure molecular rabbit holes in pursuit of a deeper understanding of...
Dr Osamu Hataji – An Improved Quality Of Life For Copd Patients
Dr Osamu Hataji is a physician who diagnoses and treats various respiratory and lung diseases. Dr Esteban C.Gabazza is a professor with expertise in inflammation and the immune system. Here, they discuss COPD treatment and how they are working together to assess...
Dr Tamàs Fülöp – A New Perspective For Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment
Nearly all of the clinical trials for Alzheimer’s treatments have failed, leading many to wonder whether pharmaceutical companies have been chasing the wrong targets. Dr Tamàs Fülöp and his colleagues at the University of Sherbrooke are leading the charge to...
Dr Charles L. Bowden – A New Frontier For Bipolar Disorder
Dr Charles L. Bowden, an expert in the field of bipolar disorder research, has defined the symptoms and biology of bipolar disorders. Here he discusses the obstacles patients and physicians face when assessing and managing bipolar disorder and how developments made...
Professor Elizabeth Jonas – The Mitochondrion: The Powerhouse Behind Neurotransmission
Professor Elizabeth Jonas and her colleagues at Yale University study the function of cell components called mitochondria and their role in neurotransmission. In particular, Professor Jonas is interested in characterising how channels in the mitochondrial membrane...
Professor Andrew Webb – Tumours In The Crosshairs: New Tools To Resurrect An Old Strategy For Targeted Cancer Therapy
Professor Andrew Webb and his undergraduate research students at Wellesley College have developed a highly selective nano-therapeutic that could be used to treat solid tumours. The method involves gold nanoparticles loaded with boron-10, which can selectively...
Dr Janet Mcelhaney And Dr George Kuchel – Improving Immune Responses To Influenza Vaccines
Dr Janet McElhaney and Dr George Kuchel are on a mission to reduce the impact of influenza in older adults. By examining the relationship between ageing, vaccine type and immune response, they aim to enhance the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in senior citizens....
The European Association For Cancer Research
The European Association for Cancer Research, or EACR, was established in 1968 by a team of scientists who wanted to enable communication among cancer researchers across Europe. Today, the EACR coordinates scientific meetings and high quality training courses, and...
Professor Jonathan M. Kurie – Targeting The Tumour Stroma To Combat Metastatic Lung Cancer
Professor Jonathan M. Kurie and his colleagues at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center study the mechanisms of lung cancer metastasis for the purpose of identifying novel therapeutic targets. Professor Kurie is specifically interested in understanding how...
Professor Philip Hazell – Learning To Help Children Who Hurt Themselves
A desire to improve the treatment of adolescents who engage in deliberate self-harm motivated Professor Philip Hazell to carry out a research study testing the effectiveness of developmental group psychotherapy in preventing self-injury. Why are kids hurting...
Professor Chiye Aoki – The Neurobiological Roots Of Individuality And Anxiety
Professor Chiye Aoki and her team are exploring the neurobiological bases of individuality and anxiety disorders such as anorexia nervosa, by looking into how environmental factors influence and shape the development of juvenile and adolescent brains. Portrait of a...
Dr. Linda Wykes And Dr. Thomas Schricker – When Mass Spectrometry Meets Metabolism
Dr. Linda Wykes and Dr. Thomas Schricker are leading researchers of nutritional interventions in perioperative care. Here they discuss the effect of improved nutrition support and pain control before and after surgery and how it relates to better patient outcomes....
The American Academy Of Neurology
Founded in 1948, and now representing more than 30,000 individuals worldwide, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the world’s largest association of neurologists and neuroscientists. From funding and disseminating the latest research, all the way through to...
Professor Jing-Fei Dong – Understanding Bleeding In Patients With Brain Trauma
Professor Jing-fei Dong of Bloodworks Research Institute and the University of Washington and Tianjin Medical University, studies the effect that traumatic brain injuries can have on the ability of the blood to form blood clots to control for trauma-induced bleeding....
The Cancer Research Institute
Founded in 1953, the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is the world’s first non-profit organisation dedicated exclusively to harnessing the power of the immune system to defeat cancer. This important branch of research has led to a new class of cancer treatments known...
Professor Irva Hertz-Picciotto – The Conception Of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Professor Irva Hertz-Picciotto has been fascinated by early development since childhood. Her interest brought on a life long journey, studying the dangers lurking around the corner for the not yet born – now focusing on risks for autism spectrum disorders. Among your...
Dr David Stanford – Improving Our Healthcare System With Queueing Theory
Dr David Stanford’s research at the University of Western Ontario involves applying the mathematics of Queueing Theory to real-world problems in healthcare, such as emergency department wait times and organ donor priority lists. To begin with, what motivated you to...
Drs Sheila Murphy & Lourdes Baezconde- Garbanati – Transforming Health Promotion Through Narrative
Dr Sheila Murphy and her team including Dr Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Dr Meghan Moran and Dr Lauren Frank are utilising the potency of narratives in order to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour and reduce health disparities both in the United States and...
Professor Warren Foster – Searching For New Biomarkers Of Endometriosis
Professor Warren Foster and his collaborators at McMaster University are interested in finding biomarkers for endometriosis, a gynaecological disease that causes pelvic pain and infertility. They hope that the discovery of a strongly predictive and reliable biomarker...
Dr Hidetaka Hamasaki, Md, Phd – A Neat Way To Prevent And Fight Diabetes
Metabolic disease and in particular diabetes are the focus of Dr Hidetaka Hamasaki’s work at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Chiba, Japan. Dr Hamasaki and his team discovered a valuable lifestyle tweak that allows patients with reduced physical...
Professor Jim Koropatnick – Paving The Way For The Future Through Innovative Training And Research
Determined to have a commanding presence on the scientific global stage, Canada has developed crucial plans to generate high yield research opportunities. Two research training programmes known as Cancer Research and Technology Transfer (CaRTT) and Partners in...
Professor Amy Arnsten – Staying In Control: How The Prefrontal Cortex Helps Us Be Human
Professor Arnsten and her team at Yale University have pioneered new insights into the unique ways that the prefrontal cortex is regulated at the molecular level, altering our ability to remember, pay attention, and control our thoughts and actions when we feel...
Jeffry A. Simpson – Taking The Long View On Wellness
Nature vs. nurture is one of the oldest debates in biology. Are people’s lives determined by their genes, their upbringing, or both? Nearly 30 years ago at the onset of the human genome project, scientists believed that once all human genes were known, all of human...
Dr Frances M. Sladek – Turning The Tables On ‘Healthy’ Fats
Dr Frances Sladek is a world leader in molecular biology research. Here she talks to us about her latest research, how soybean oil affects health and what the molecular mechanisms that underlie these outcomes may be. What is your research background and what triggered...
Dr Shin-Siung Jung – Bringing Adhd Into Focus With Nonpharmaceutical Treatment
Dr Shin-Siung Jung, of the Everspring foundation in Taiwan, has pioneered the use of sensory-motor integration training in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as a non-pharmaceutical alternative treatment. The training comprises a series of...
Professor Ulrich Schnyder – Transcending Trauma: Understanding And Hope For Refugees
The present refugee crisis will likely be one of the defining features of the current era. By the end of 2015, worldwide refugee numbers exceeded 65 million and growing, surpassing displacement numbers seen at the end of World War II. At present, nearly one out of...
Professor Paul Dent – A Versatile Antiviral Drug With Potential From Ebola To Hiv
Professor Paul Dent, of Virginia Commonwealth University, has conducted extensive research into the potential of AR-12, a small molecule drug, to act as a versatile antiviral agent. The drug exploits clever targeting of ubiquitous chaperone proteins, leading to...
Dr David Greenberg – The Genetics Of Epilepsy
Searching for disease-causing genes is no simple task. Dr David Greenberg has been studying the genetic determinants of inherited epilepsy for 30 years and explains how the search can be hampered by deeply ingrained, but incorrect, assumptions within the field....
The American Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology
Representing over 12,000 members worldwide, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has been advancing the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology for the last 100 years. Over the next few pages we have had the pleasure of speaking...
Professor Seamas Donnelly | Dr Ciaran O’reilly – Translational Medicine: Fundamental Research, Drug Discovery And More!
Professor Seamas Donnelly and Dr Ciaran O’Reilly are currently working together in a cross-disciplinary team, uncovering the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in inflammation and cancer, and investigating promising small molecule therapeutic approaches....
Dr Heiko Reutter – Studying Congenital Human Malformations Caused By Too Many Genes
Genetics researcher Dr Heiko Reutter and his colleagues at the Institute of Human Genetics of the University of Bonn, Germany, think that some congenital malformations of the uro-rectal area, oesophagus and trachea are caused by too many copies of genes that govern...