Advancing Cardiovascular Health Equity Through Culture-Centered Dietary Interventions: Research Gaps and Opportunities (Day 2)
Adherence to evidence-based dietary approaches, such as the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and Mediterranean diet, is associated with a multitude of health benefits, including lowered blood pressure, improved lipid profiles, reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence, and decreased risk of type 2 diabetes.1-5 Also, adherence to healthy dietary patterns is associated with decrease risk for several cancers and cancer mortality. 6, 7 Yet, the strength of these associations varies by race and ethnicity, though results have been inconsistent; and there are racial and ethnic differences in adherence to t...
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2023 Frontiers in Basic Immunology (Day 2)
The Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute is hosting a two-day international symposium on September 27-28, 2023 entitled 2023 Frontiers in Basic Immunology. The program includes recent advances in the field and should be an exciting forum for discussion and debate on the current understanding of basic immunological mechanisms.Air date: 9/28/2023 8:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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2023 Frontiers in Basic Immunology (Day 1)
The Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute is hosting a two-day international symposium on September 27-28, 2023 entitled 2023 Frontiers in Basic Immunology. The program includes recent advances in the field and should be an exciting forum for discussion and debate on the current understanding of basic immunological mechanisms.Air date: 9/27/2023 8:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Advancing Cardiovascular Health Equity Through Culture-Centered Dietary Interventions: Research Gaps and Opportunities
Goals and Key Audience:
Objectives:
1. Identify gaps and opportunities for research on the cultural adaptation of evidence-based dietary approaches (e.g., DASH and Mediterranean Diet) to address diet-related diseases in racial/ethnic populations;
2. Understand dietary acculturation and its influence on the development and effectiveness of dietary interventions among diverse immigrant populations;
3. Interrogate the influence of dietary acculturation on the gut microbiome, and understand gut microbiome response to traditional and evidence-based diets.
Need and Justification:
Adherence to evidence-based dietary approac...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Health and Aging Trajectories: Shared and Competing Risks and Resiliencies for Chronic Diseases Associated with Aging (Day 2)
This workshop was developed through a collaboration between staff from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Aging (NIA), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the NIH Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives/Dietary Supplements (DPCPSI/ODS), in coordination with the Trans-NIH Health and Aging Trajectories (HAT) Working Group, and is hosted by NHLBI. The workshop will highlight state-of-the-art knowledge from various disciplines seeking to explore together potential shared and competing ri...
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Health and Aging Trajectories: Shared and Competing Risks and Resiliencies for Chronic Diseases Associated with Aging (Day 1)
This workshop was developed through a collaboration between staff from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Aging (NIA), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the NIH Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives/Dietary Supplements (DPCPSI/ODS), in coordination with the Trans-NIH Health and Aging Trajectories (HAT) Working Group, and is hosted by NHLBI. The workshop will highlight state-of-the-art knowledge from various disciplines seeking to explore together potential shared and competing ri...
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Generative Biology: Learning to Program Cellular Machines
My general scientific interests are in understanding how genetically encoded molecular programs can yield the remarkable behaviors observed in biological organisms, at multiple scales. I began my research career as a biophysical chemist and structural biologist studying problems such as the evolutionary optimization of enzymes, how protein structure is encoded in sequence, and the determinants of protein-protein interaction specificity. My research has gradually shifted towards utilizing this mechanistic understanding of molecules as a foundation to study how systems of interacting molecules assemble to yield cellular or o...
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Clinical Center Grand Rounds: Manipulating Anti-Tumor Immunity Compartmentalization To Improve Recurrence Free Survival In Head And Neck Cancer; Olfactory Neuroblastoma: Molecular Advances and Clinical Trials
Manipulating Anti-Tumor Immunity Compartmentalization To Improve Recurrence Free Survival In Head And Neck Cancer Olfactory Neuroblastoma: Molecular Advances And Clinical Trials. Clint Allen, MD Senior Investigator Surgical Oncology Program Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute, NCI and Nyall London, PhD, MD Principal Investigator Sinonasal and Skull Base Tumor Section Surgical Oncology Program Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute, NCIFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 9/27/2023 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Cancer Advisory Board - September 2023
The 19th Virtual Meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board.Air date: 9/6/2023 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Neuron-glial interactions health and disease: from cognition to cancer
Michelle Leigh Monje-Deisseroth is a neuroscientist and neuro-oncologist. She is a professor of neurology at Stanford University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She develops new treatments for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/walsAir date: 1/10/2024 2:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The dark side of DNA - how the immune system senses DNA as a danger signal
Zhijian “ James ” Chen ’ s research into complex cellular biochemistry has led to the discovery of pathways and proteins that trigger immune and stress responses. Chen has identified proteins, such as the mitochondrial protein MAVS, that are crucial to the body ’ s defense against RNA viruses such as influenza and Ebola. Now, Chen and his team are dissecting a signaling pathway involving a novel DNA sensor – cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase, or cGAS – which activates an interferon response that may play a role in immune defense against pathogens and malignant cells, as well as in autoimmune diseases such as lupu...
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NSF-supported researchers have developed a low-cost HPV DNA test.
NSF-supported researchers at Rice University have developed a low-cost HPV DNA test that could be deployed as a point-of-care test for screening one of the highest risk cancers.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Bioorthogonal chemistry, the journey from basic science to clinical translation
Part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, the lecture is given by a researcher dedicated to advancing and improving the careers of women scientists. Since 1994 when this annual lecture began, every speaker has exemplified the intelligence, scientific excellence and drive that made Margaret Pittman a leader as the first female laboratory chief at NIH.
Professor Carolyn Bertozzi's research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface sugars important to human health and disease. Her research group profiles changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with ca...
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Prioritizing genetics to reduce existing health disparities
Nancy J. Cox, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Genetic Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Cox completed her PhD at Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where she spent her academic faculty career until she was recruited to Vanderbilt in 2015 to lead the n ew Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI).
As Founding Director of the VGI, Dr. Cox is focused on recruiting world-class genetics and genomics scientists to the In...
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Sleuthing the Microbiome Reveals Undercover Agents of Oncogenesis
The annual Astute Clinician Lecture was established in 1998 through a gift from the late Dr. Robert W. Miller and his wife, Haruko. It honors U.S. scientists who have observed unusual clinical occurrences and, by investigating them, have opened an important new avenue of research. The lectureship exemplifies how astute clinical observations can lead to innovative research. Speakers are proposed by members of the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) with voting for the top three candidates. Selection from this slate of candidates is made by the NIH Director.
An expert in foodborne and intestinal infections, Cynthia Sears is ...
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