Allows researchers to study effects of COVID-19 on cell growth and development Provides insight as to how various drugs impact viral spread
Globally, lung failure is one of the leading causes of death. Many conditions can affect and damage the lungs, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, influenza, pneumonia, and, most recently, COVID-19. To better understand respiratory diseases and develop new drugs faster, investigators from Brigham and Women s Hospital designed a 3D lung-on-a-chip model of the distal lung and alveolar structures, the tiny air sacs that take in oxygen as you breathe. With this innovation, researchers are actively studying how COVID-19 viral particles travel through airways and impact pulmonary cells. Notably, this technology enables scientists to investigate how various COVID-19 therapies, such as remdesivir, impact the replication of the virus. Their results are published in
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IMAGE: The 2021 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research goes to Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, for outstanding research contributions. view more
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research.
A graduate of Veterinary Medicine from the College of Veterinary Medicine in Hisar, India, who earned a PhD in pathology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia, Kuchroo is Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Co-director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, Brigham Research Institute, Boston. He is a member of the Broad Institute, and a participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation and is the founding
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