Versatope Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing vaccines and therapeutics, announced today that it has been awarded a contract with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Read More »Extracellular vesicle researcher lands NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Heather Pua, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, has received a 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award. The award, part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program...
Read More »Henry Ford physician receives NIH grant for first-of-its-kind study of keloid exosomes
Lamont R. Jones, M.D., MBA, vice chair for the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Health System, received a...
Read More »New ‘Liquid Biopsy’ Shows Early Promise in Detecting Cancer
Early detection usually offers the best chance to beat cancer. Unfortunately, many tumors aren’t caught until they’ve grown relatively large and spread to other parts of the body. That’s why researchers...
Read More »Texas Researcher Receives NIH Grant to Study Exosomal Biomarkers Important to Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Neuropsychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases are often correlated with changes in the size and shape of the brain. Texas Biomedical Research Institute Associate Scientist Melanie Carless, Ph.D., has ...
Read More »$11.6 million NIH grant supports Temple’s exploration of new possibilities in exosome heart repair
The incidence of heart disease is on the rise, and new therapeutic strategies are needed. Approaches based on stem cells, which can potentially preserve or even regenerate heart muscle cells damaged by ischemia – a hallmark of heart disease – ...
Read More »CHLA Researcher Awarded $1.9 Million by NIH to Study Exosomes for Battling Neuroblastoma
Muller Fabbri, MD, PhD, of the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has been awarded $1.9 million by the National Cancer Institute of the NIH to further his research on neuroblastoma – the third most common ...
Read More »9th ExRNA Communications Consortium Investigators’ Meeting
November 6-7th, 2017 Registration* Opens: August 2017 For more info check out: exRNA.org Scientific Topics and Areas of Interest: EV Biogenesis and Function exRNA and EV Standards exRNA based Biomarkers and Therapeutics Cutting-edge Technologies exRNA/EV Scientific Tools and Resources Join ...
Read More »Labeling Extracellular Vesicles for Nanoscale Flow Cytometry
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, are 30-800 nm vesicles that are released by most cell types, as biological packages for intercellular communication. Their importance in cancer and inflammation makes EVs and their cargo promising biomarkers of disease and cell-free ...
Read More »NIH Seeks Grant Applications on Cancer Exosome Biomarker Research
from GenomeWeb – The National Institutes of Health announced that it is seeking grant applications for projects investigating the potential of exosomes and extracellular vesicles (EVs), as well as their cargo, as biomarkers for cancer risk assessment, detection, diagnosis, and ...
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