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Dr. Dolen appointed to Residency Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology Publish Date: 22-OCT-2009 02:10 PM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. William K. Dolen, professor of pediatrics and medicine in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine and director of MCG's Allergy-Immunology Fellowship Program, has been appointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Residency Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology.
Eating right, not supplements, is best at keeping your good gut bacteria healthy, dietitian says Publish Date: 21-OCT-2009 10:24 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Healthy eating, not supplements, is the best way to keep the good bacteria in your gut healthy, says Gail Cresci, a dietitian and researcher.As with vitamins, it's best to get the bacteria you need from healthy food rather than taking often expensive and potentially ineffective supplements, she says.
Dr. Thomas Named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar Publish Date: 23-SEP-2009 02:30 PM Dr. Tami Thomas, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the Medical College of Georgia, has won a competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to study strategies to slow the spread of viral sexually transmitted infections in rural communities.
AAMC official stresses strategic planning for future research funding success Publish Date: 28-AUG-2009 05:19 PM The chief science officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges told a group of top Medical College of Georgia scientists and clinicians that the near-term outlook for federal research funding is good. However, she cautioned that academic medical centers must think and act more strategically to successfully obtain future funding.
Microscopic "beads" could help create "designer" immune cells that ignore transplanted organs Publish Date: 06-JUL-2009 08:20 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. The future of organ transplantation could include microscopic beads that create "designer" immune cells to help patients tolerate their new organ, Medical College of Georgia researchers say."It's absolutely natural," says Dr. Anatolij Horuzsko, reproductive immunologist at the MCG Center for Molecular Chaperone/Radiobiology and Cancer Virology, who has used the approach successfully in mice with skin grafts.
MCG graduate student to attend Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany Publish Date: 23-JUN-2009 01:41 PM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Melissa Laird, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Medical College of Georgia will join a select group of research students to meet with Nobel Laureates next week in Germany.
Melissa and 73 other students nationwide will hear lectures and discuss research during the 59th Annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates June 28-July 3. Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine have met annually since 1951 in Lindau with students selected through Oak Ridge Associated Universities, a consortium of 100 major Ph.D.-granting academic institutions. Melissa was nominated by School of Graduate Studies Dean Gretchen B. Caughman.
Dr. Ownby to chair NIH Study Section Publish Date: 23-JUN-2009 09:13 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. - Dr. Dennis R. Ownby, chief of the Section of Allergy and Immunology in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, has been appointed chair of the Infectious Diseases, Reproductive Health, Asthma and Pulmonary Conditions Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.
DNA component can stimulate and suppress the immune response Publish Date: 27-JAN-2009 11:21 AM A component of DNA that can both stimulate and suppress the immune system, depending on the dosage, may hold hope for treating cancer and infection, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Low levels of CpG increase inflammation, part of the body's way of eliminating invaders. But high doses block inflammation by increasing expression of the enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase, or IDO, an immunosuppressor, the researchers say.
MCG Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research by Dr. Koni Publish Date: 05-NOV-2008 10:52 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Medical College of Georgia announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Dr. Pandelakis A. Koni titled “Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity Targeted Against HIV-1 Env Glycans.”
