Inflammatory Disease: can include a vast array of disorders and conditions that are characterized by inflammation. Examples include allergy, asthma, autoimmune diseases, coeliac disease, glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, preperfusion injury and transplant rejection.
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DATE: February 12, 2019TIME: 8:00am PST Local and systemic inflammation typically involves one or more cytokine cascades, or pathways, whi...
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CET Introduction Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) offers significant advantages o...
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 10:00am CET, 5:00pm CST Intro Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) offers significant advantage...
Neuronal migration defects, including pachygyria, are among the most severe developmental brain defects in humans. Using human genetics approaches, we recently identified bi-allelic truncatin...
Two projects looking at novel approaches to targeting inflammatory breast cancer will be presented. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a unique, understudied, and most lethal subtype account...
DATE: September 20 2018TIME: 11:00am EDT, 5:00pm CEST Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-call...
DATE: September 20, 2018TIME: 10:00am CEST, 4:00pm CST Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-called “...
Current methods for in vitro diagnosis of autoimmune diseases (ADs) are mainly based on the detection of circulating autoantibodies using specific AD autoantigens. A high-quality recombinant...
Sexually transmitted diseases remain a major global public health burden despite the availability of effective prevention strategies to diagnose and treat bacterial STDs. Concerning tre...
DATE: July 11, 2018TIME: 10:00AM PDT, 1:00PM EDTSexually transmitted diseases remain a major global public health burden despite the availability of effective prevention strategies to d...
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...