Health and Medicine
Professor Paul Dent – Developing Cancer Killing Combinations
Professor Paul Dent is committed to taking an idea from the bench to the bedside. He is doing just that by designing clinical trials that investigate how drugs can combine and synergise to kill tumour cells. Maximising the potential of cancer treatments Professor Paul...
Professor Susan Masino – Metabolism and Brain Health
Professor Susan Masino of Trinity College, Connecticut, studies the mechanisms that underlie the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet, an almost 100-year-old therapy for epilepsy, with a view to apply what she has learned to the treatment of other disorders, such as...
Dr Yoshiaki Minakata, MD, PhD – Breathing So You Can Move and Moving So You Can Breathe
Pulmonologist and medical researcher Dr Yoshiaki Minakata and his colleagues at the National Hospital Organization Wakayama Hospital in Wakayama, Japan, try to improve the outlook for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by examining the relationship...
The British Society For Research On Ageing
Founded sometime before 1939, The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) is the oldest learned society in the world devoted to the study of the fundamental biology of the ageing process. The society’s mission is to increase our scientific knowledge of the...
Professor Karima Djabali – Putting A Stop To Premature Ageing
For over ten years, Professor Karima Djabali and her team have been on a mission to find a cure for Hutchinson- Gilford Progeria Syndrome. This cutting edge research can inform both interventions for this fatal disorder and reveal further insights into normal ageing....
Associate Professor Jatinder Lamba – The Genetic Puzzle: Why Do We Respond Differently To Cancer Therapy?
Professor Jatinder Lamba, of the University of Florida, studies the genetic basis for inter-individual variability in the response to drugs, and in particular in the response of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia to antibody therapies. Understanding the basis for...
Tan A. Ince, MD, PhD – Fighting Cancer by Keeping Cancer Cells Alive
Pathologist and cancer researcher Professor Tan Ince and his colleagues at the University of Miami investigate human cancers by developing cell culture media to grow cancer cells and normal cells to better study the relationship between the two. How Do You Study a...
Dr Kazuhiro Yasufuku – Getting Really, Really Small to Treat Lung Cancer
Thoracic surgeon and research scientist Dr Kazuhiro Yasufuku and his colleagues at the University of Toronto in Canada aim to use the latest in nanoparticle and high technology to treat lung cancer without major surgery. Lung Cancer is not Just Any Cancer Cancer is...
Professor William W. Lytton – Uniting Biology And Maths To Understand The Human Brain
Neurologist and computational neuroscientist Professor Bill Lytton and his colleagues at the Neurosimulation Laboratory of the State University of New York in Brooklyn are using computer simulation to investigate brain function and disease. Their research has...
Professor Deborah Ferrington – Uncovering The Mysteries Of Agerelated Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness amongst the elderly population in the developed world. Professor Deborah Ferrington and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota are carrying out ground-breaking research on the cellular pathways...
Dr Stefan Veltel – Dysregulated Cellular Migration: Seeing is Believing
Dr Stefan Veltel and his colleagues at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf in the Institute of Medical Microbiology, and Hygiene, study the molecular mechanisms of small GTPases in the context of various diseases. One protein in their focus is Rab21 and its...
Associate Professor Hiroaki Oguro – The Future Of Dementia Therapies?
Efficacy of Ferulic Acid for the Treatment of Dementia Associate Professor Hiroaki Oguro and his colleagues at Shimane University study the effects of plant antioxidants on dementia symptoms. Specifically, Professor Oguro is interested in the effect of Ferulic Acid on...
Dr Catharine Smith – Targeting And Enhancing The Effects Of Deacetylase Inhibitors In Cancer Treatment
Dr Catharine Smith is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. Her interest in the actions of lysine deacetylases (KDACs, also known as histone deacetylases or HDACs) led her to join the University of Arizona Cancer Centre and translate her research to aid...
Professor Ron Eccles | Dr David Hull – Vicks VapoRub Shows Its Speed
Vicks VapoRub (VVR) has been commercially available for over 100 years, as a remedy for congested nasal passages. A study led by Professor Ron Eccles and Dr David Hull has now demonstrated the speed of its effect in common cold sufferers. To begin, what...
Professor Rhodri Ceredig | Andreia Ribeiro – A Novel Assay For A Novel Therapeutic
Professor Rhodri Ceredig and his PhD student Andreia Ribeiro have developed a novel assay for measuring the immunosuppressive potency of MSC (mesenchymal stromal cells) that could revolutionise the use of this cell-based therapy How did your research experience...
Professor Naoko Tanese – Huntingtin: Its Role In Gene Expression
Professor Naoko Tanese and her research team at New York University School of Medicine investigate transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulatory pathways. Specifically, Professor Tanese is interested in identifying the post-transcriptional functions of the...
Dr. Sharon Ruthstein – The Importance Of Copper In The Human Cell
Dr. Sharon Ruthstein researches the biological pathways involving metal ions, especially copper, by using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Here, she discusses the importance of copper in the human body and the implications for future diagnostic and...
The Small Business Administration
Small businesses are the creators of jobs and the driving force behind the US economy. Recognising this truth, the US government established the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1953 in order to help Americans start and develop their own small businesses. As...
Dr Yu Wang – Preventing Vascular Ageing as a Means of Life Extension
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Dr Yuichi Nodake – Designing Cosmetics From Your Own Bacteria
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Dr Takahiro Yoshizawa – New developments in heart disease research
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Dr Stephen Lloyd – Nuclear sunscreen
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Dr Marita Lynagh – Smoked Carrots
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Skye McDonald, PhD – Understanding Psychological Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Dr Sidney H Kennedy – Beating the Blues
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Dr Shun Takagi – Enhancement of muscle deoxygenation in ischemic heart disease
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Dr Shoji Hamada – A novel electric current simulator in the human brain
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Professor Shmuel Banai – Managing Refractory Angina in Absence of Options
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Dr Scott A. Tenenbaum – Structurally Interacting RNA: a Novel Therapeutic and Diagnostic Tool
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Dr Jodie Benson – Preventing Disease in Babies Before Birth
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Dr Phil Gan – Sucking the liver out of the way with LiVac™
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Dr Patricia Li – Primary Care: Ensuring A Strong Foundation For Child Health Services
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