Medical & Health Sciences

Professor Arlan Richardson – Growing Old Gracefully: The Science Behind Aging

Professor Arlan Richardson and his colleagues at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center investigate the biological mechanisms behind aging. Professor Richardson is specifically interested in the effects of aging and dietary restriction on gene expression,...

ECCO

Consisting of 24 Member Societies and representing over 80,000 professionals, ECCO is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to support the right of all European cancer patients to the best possible treatment and care. ECCO achieves this by connecting the European...

Dr Stephanie Watkins – Building Immunity Against Cancer

A growing body of evidence supports how harnessing the power of the immune system may be the ultimate way to fight cancer. Therefore, researchers such as Dr Stephanie Watkins at Loyola University Chicago have been striving to increase our understanding of cancer...

Dr Maria Stella Carro – Making Maps Of Shifting Sands

The malignancy of brain tumours such as glioblastomas are controlled by complex networks of interlocking genetic factors. Dr Maria Stella Carro’s ultimate aim is to unravel these complex puzzles and find new opportunities for novel glioblastoma therapeutics. There are...

THE ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH

The Alliance for Aging Research is a national non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application in order to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health. Founded 30 years ago in 1986, the...

Professor Eli Glatstein – Photodynamic Therapy: An Illuminating Approach To Cancer Treatment

Professor Eli Glatstein and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania have applied photodynamic therapy for the treatment of a variety of types of cancer. Here, we illustrate the rationale behind this technique and discuss malignant pleural mesothelioma, a type...

Professor Christine Theoret – The Horse As A Model For The Study Of Human Wound Healing Disorders

Professor Christine Theoret at the University of Montreal studies dermal fibroproliferative disorders in horses with the aim of reducing financial and welfare impacts on the equine industry. The results of her work may also be carried over to the field of human...

Dr Donald J. Vander Griend – Uncovering Genetic Pathways to Prostate Cancer

Dr Donald Vander Griend and his research team at the University of Chicago have devoted the last few years to investigating novel gene pathways which underlie prostate cancer development and progression, as well as the factors leading to treatment resistance and...

Professor David M. Guidot – Exploring Alveolar Macrophages as HIV Reservoirs

Although pulmonary disorders remain the highest cause of mortality amongst individuals living with chronic infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), many of the mechanisms underlying their development remain unknown. Professor David Guidot and his team at...

Professor Iraldo Bello Rivero – A Synergistic Immunotherapy For Skin Cancer

Professor Iraldo Bello-Rivero, of the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Havana, Cuba, has conducted several clinical trials to investigate the potential of a synergistic interferon combination therapy for the treatment of skin cancers. Skin cancer –...

Dr Peter Houghton – Novel Therapeutics For Childhood Solid Tumours

Dr Peter Houghton’s group implements preclinical trials to identify new drugs that may be effective and less toxic treatments against childhood cancers. From patient-derived xenografts in immunodeficient mice to utilising canine cancer patients as models, they have...

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...