Tech 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 and EpiVax, Inc. Science [...]

iCubed’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 in the iCubed offices located [...]

Over 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 safety and efficacy. Click here [...]

Courtesy: 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 banks. Click here to [...]

University of Rhode Island student Sierra Valois has been accepted into the SURF INBRE internship for the summer of 2013. Valois, an undergraduate in the biotechnology program, will dedicate her time in the Laboratory of Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis, working alongside Dr. Alan Rothman and Dr. Carey Medin. Sierra worked in the lab as an iCubed intern [...]

iCubed Director Dr. Annie De Groot will join a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 10 as past of the University of Rhode Island’s Research & Innovation Showcase. The event will highlight the intellectual productivity of students and faculty and demonstrate how that work can contribute to economic development. The discussion is titled “Forming your own company: [...]

The fourth Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology Workshop (ICIW) will be held in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB), September 22-25, 2013 in Washington D.C. The ICIW invites submission of original papers describing previously unpublished research and development on recent advances in the field of immunoinformatics and computational immunology. All papers will [...]

SITUATION: Right now in Mali, there are 33,000 doses of the HPV vaccine going to waste in a warehouse. PROBLEM: Due to the current political crisis in Mali, the vaccine cannot be distributed, since public health funds are going to support the military. ACTIONS BY GAIA: In 2011, GAIA Vaccine Foundation determined that Malians were ready and [...]

iCubed’s Seminar Series event featuring Dr. Paul Cohen has been rescheduled to Friday, April 26, 2013. Dr. Cohen’s lecture is titled “The Lives of Commensal and Pathogenic (O157:H7) E. coli in the Mouse Intestine.” The seminar is scheduled for 12 p.m. in the iCubed offices. Dr. Cohen’s research involves microbial genetics, the molecular basis of [...]