iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” for June 2013 is Dr. Stephen Gregory. Dr. Gregory is an associate professor of medicine at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School as well as a principal investigator on iCubed’s $13 million TRIAD U19 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gregory’s current projects include studying the factors affecting [...]
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Denise Hise named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (May 2013)
iCubed’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 species), and epitope database [...]
Is H7N9 influenza a “stealth” virus?
The 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 cost diagnostics for the newly [...]
Steven Moss named iCubed “Featured Researcher of the Month” (March 2013)
Dr. 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. He is also an attending [...]
Leslie De Groot named iCubed’s “Feature Researcher of the Month” (February 2013)
iCubed’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. Annie De Groot. Dr. De [...]
Rui Liu named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (January 2013)
Postdoctoral 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 Multi-Path project and a [...]
Barbara-anne Martin named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (December 2012)
iCubed’s final “Featured Researcher of the Month” for 2012 is Barbara-anne Martin. Barbara is a Research Associate in iCubed’s Global Vaccine Research and Development Laboratory. Her current projects include recombinant protein production (H.pylori) for mouse vaccine studies and DEC 205 antibody production for immunological studies. Before joining the iCubed team in 2012, Barbara spent two [...]
Eduardo Mufarrege named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (November 2012)
iCubed’s Featured Researcher of the Month is Eduardo Mufarrege, Ph.D. Dr. Mufarrege is a post-doctoral fellow in the Cell Culture Laboratory of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in Argentina. Over the past six months he has been collaborating with iCubed as a visiting researcher developing a deimmunization project of interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha). This cytokine is [...]
Dr. De Groot to be awarded Smith College Medal
This February iCubed’s Dr. Annie De Groot will be recognized for her career accomplishments during Smith College’s annual Rally Day event. The ceremony is a tradition at which distinguished alumnae are awarded medals by the president of the college. Click here to read more about this year’s event and the medal recipients.
Danielle Aguirre named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” (August 2012)
Research Assistant Danielle Aguirre has been named iCubed’s “Featured Researcher of the Month” for August 2012. Danielle joined iCubed in 2010, focusing her research on immunology while also pursuing a master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology. In the lab, Danielle is currently working on the DEC-205 TRIAD project. The project involves developing an improved [...]
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