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Rockefeller University Press returns to campus
...JEM includes Jean-Laurent Casanova, Daniel Mucida, Michel Nussenzweig, Paul Cohen, and Jeffrey Ravetch. Casanova is also the editor-in-chief of JHI. Having these research leaders on the editorial board makes RUP unique, adds Lucie Van Emmenis, senior scientific edit...
Rockefeller University Press launches new journal in partnership with scientists
...This is long overdue,” says Rockefeller University’s Jean-Laurent Casanova, JHI’s founding editor-in-chief, who gives an in-depth perspective on the field in an inaugural editorial. “Since the 1950s, our field has made spectacular medical and biological contributions to th...
Study explains why checkpoint inhibitors so adept at fighting cancer may also leave patients vulnerable to infections
...These findings may lead to new approaches to checkpoint inhibitor treatments that maintain their powerful anti-cancer effects without undermining the immune system’s ability to defeat microbes,” says senior co-author Jean-Laurent Casanova, head of the St. Giles Laboratory ...
Jean-Laurent Casanova appointed HHMI investigator
Jean-Laurent Casanova, senior attending physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been named one of 27 new investigators with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nonprofit me...
An immune flaw may cause West Nile virus’s deadliest symptoms
...What is it that makes these select few so vulnerable? An international team of researchers led by Rockefeller University’s Jean-Laurent Casanova and Alessandro Borghesi of the San Matteo Research Hospital in Pavia, Italy, recently pinpointed the cause: an autoimmune defect...
New findings on TB could change how we treat inflammatory disorders    
...The current study, led by Rockefeller’s Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis and Jean-Laurent Casanova, revealed a genetic cause of TNF deficiency, as well as the underlying mechanism: a lack of TNF incapacitates a specific immune process in the lungs, leading to severe—but surprising...
West Nile infections are spiking. Here’s why the percentage of severe cases is so small
...By studying WNV outbreaks in multiple countries going back 20 years, Rockefeller’s Jean-Laurent Casanova and his collaborators discovered that about 40% of cases of neuroinvasive WNV can be linked to the presence of immune system proteins called autoantibodies that sabotag...
Newly discovered genetic malfunction causes rare lung disease
...The researchers, including Rockefeller’s Jean-Laurent Casanova and Institut Imagine’s Anna-Lena Neehus, recently published their results in Cell. The study also found that the children are missing half of their alveolar macrophages, which are located in the air sacs of the...
Jean-Laurent Casanova honored with the Korsmeyer Award
Jean-Laurent Casanova, professor and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, is the recipient of the 2016 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award for his work investigating the genetic basis of pediatric infectious diseases. The award, given by the Ameri...
Jean-Laurent Casanova to receive 2014 Robert Koch Award
Jean-Laurent Casanova, head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded the 2014 Robert Koch Award from the Berlin, Germany based Robert Koch Foundation. Casanova shares the prize with Alain Fischer from the Collège de France ...
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