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URI researchers honored at Bioscience Awards
May 15, 2013iCubed’s top brass were honored at a ceremony in Cranston this month as part of Tech Collective’s first Rhode Island Bioscience Awards. Among the award recipients were Dr. Annie De Groot and Dr. Denice Spero of iCubed. University of Rhode Island Professor Dr. Edward Bozzi and EpiVax, Inc. Science Director Dr. ...
Tech Collective to honor De Groot and Spero at awards ceremony
May 1, 2013Tech Collective, Rhode Island’s bioscience and information technology industry association, will be honoring its inaugural group during the first Rhode Island Bioscience Awards on May 2 in Cranston. Among the award recipients are Dr. Annie De Groot and Dr. Denice Spero of iCubed. University of Rhode Island Professor Dr. Edward Bozzi ...
Seminar Series event scheduled for Friday, April 26
April 22, 2013iCubed’s next Seminar Series event is scheduled for this Friday, April 26 at 12:00 p.m. The seminar will feature University of Rhode Island Professor Dr. Paul Cohen. Dr. Cohen’s lecture is titled “The Lives of Commensal and Pathogenic (O157:H7) E. coli in the Mouse Intestine.” The seminar will be held ...
Of hamsters and men: a new perspective on host cell proteins
April 10, 2013Over many years, recombinant protein biologics developers have addressed product immunogenicity with a focus on the active pharmaceutical ingredient. Recently, immune responses to the native host cell proteins (HCP) have gained attention, as they too may have an effect on the immune response to the formulated drug, namely diminished drug ...
Garrett: Is this how a pandemic would start?
April 10, 2013Courtesy: Denverpost.com Here’s how it would happen: Children playing along an urban river bank would spot hundreds of grotesque, bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, angry citizens would protest the rising stench from piles of dead ducks and swans, their rotting bodies collecting by the thousands along river ...
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Denise Hise named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (May 2013)
May 20, 2013iCubed’s Featured Researcher of the Month for May is research associate and data analyst Denise Hise. Denise joined the Bioinformatics Core at iCubed in 2013 hoping to pursue a love of microbiology and immunology through immunoinformatics as applied to vaccines. She is currently working on Helicobacter pylori, MultiPath (Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia ...
Is H7N9 influenza a “stealth” virus?
April 15, 2013The bioinformatics team at EpiVax, a close collaborator of iCubed, has examined the H7N9 virus sequence currently being reported in parts of China and found an unusually low number of T cell epitopes (see figure below). EpiVax researchers predict that it will be difficult to make effective vaccines and low ...
Steven Moss named iCubed “Featured Researcher of the Month” (March 2013)
March 25, 2013Dr. Steven Moss has been named iCubed’s Featured Researcher of the Month for March 2013. In addition to his role as a key collaborator with iCubed, Dr. Moss is a professor of medicine and the director of the Brown University gastroenterology fellowship training program. The program trains post-resident physicians in gastroenterology. ...
Leslie De Groot named iCubed’s “Feature Researcher of the Month” (February 2013)
February 21, 2013iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” for February could be called the “father” of the Institute for Immunology and Informatics. Dr. Leslie De Groot, who in addition to leading a successful career in immunology, has also contributed to the continuing success of another enterprise, iCubed, led by his daughter Dr. ...
Rui Liu named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (January 2013)
January 14, 2013Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Rui Liu has been named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” for January 2013. The Institute is proud to highlight Dr. Liu as the first featured researcher of the new year for her hard work and dedication in the laboratory. Dr. Liu’s research is focused on both the ...
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