Empowering the immune system to combat cancer, including the use of immunotherapies and cellular therapies, is one of the great…
Category: CDI Experts
The CDI Experts: Butler and His Lab Investigate Blood Aging, Cancer
Blood is made of cells that sustain life, and virtually all biological processes. But as the blood cells start to…
The CDI Experts: Xue and a Critical Pathway
Hai-Hui “Howard” Xue is an immunologist studying the incredibly complex symphony of T cells in the immune system. One molecule…
The CDI Experts: Gengenbacher and the Fight Against Global Killer TB
COVID-19 has killed 2 million people worldwide over the last year, according to estimates. But year after year in the…
The CDI Experts: Kurepina, TB, and an Eye for Detail
Tuberculosis (TB) has been with humanity for tens of thousands of years. Along the way, it’s killed hundreds of millions…
CDI Physician-Scientist Seeks to Catch Disease Earlier in the Process
Rachel Rosenstein, M.D., Ph.D., worked for two years at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. There, the dermatologist saw…
The CDI Experts: How Nancy Zhao Powered the COVID-19 Response
Nancy Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., was on back-to-back academic work trips in January. She had a meeting as a member of…
The CDI Experts: Zilberberg and Her Lab Build Models for Breakthroughs
The culture platform, hosted in a CO2 incubator, is programmed to rock back and forth, on and on for days….
The CDI Experts: Park and Fitzgerald in the COVID-19 Era
The day had come – the day of the test. A national shortage of diagnostic testing in the accelerating COVID-19…
The CDI Experts: Olivier Loudig Hunts Cancer in the Biomarkers
Fourteen wells, loaded with buffer, ready to go. Precise calculations of concentration and distribution, to avoid contamination. Arranging the samples…