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Protein Structures Identified by IBBR Team Provide Insights into T Cell Recognition of Targets for Cancer TherapiesAugust 4, 2020 – Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) is a treatment for patients with several forms of cancer. This therapeutic effect is mediated by T cells through recognition of tumor neoantigens, which are proteins not previously recognized by the immune system. To better understand interactions between neoantigens and T cell receptors (TCRs) that could impact therapeutic development, a team in the laboratory of IBBR Investigator Dr. Roy Mariuzza, Professor, UMCP Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, in collaboration with IBBR Fellow Brian Pierce, Assistant Professor, UMCP... Read More |
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Assuring Quality of Vaccines at the Point-of-Care: IBBR Team Advances Detection MethodJune 08, 2020 - Analytical techniques to evaluate the condition of vaccine formulations are critical to quality assurance of these substances. Certain vaccines, including those with aluminum adjuvants, can be sensitive to freezing, which would damage the vaccine, and therefore deviations from temperature ranges prescribed for storage and transport need to be monitored. A method for detecting freezing events of liquid vaccines is described in a recent publication in the journal Vaccine featuring work by the laboratory of Bruce Yu, PhD, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the... Read More |
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IBBR Laboratory Develops a Database of Coronavirus Protein Structures, CoV3D, to Facilitate Advances in COVID-19 ResearchJune 8, 2020 - In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the world have been working to rapidly develop tests, vaccines, and therapeutics. High resolution structures of coronavirus proteins are critical to understanding the virus and how it causes disease, as well as how the immune system recognizes the virus, which can be used to design effective vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics. To provide a simple and up-to-date reference of coronavirus structural data to the scientific community, a team in the laboratory of IBBR Investigator Dr. Brian Pierce (Assistant... Read More |
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IBBR Researchers Awarded $850K from NSF to Study How Plants Defend Against Fungal Invasion(Rockville, MD, February 25, 2020) Researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) recently received $850K from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance our understanding of how fungi like powdery mildew infect plants including food source crops, and how plants fight back. The will support advances in sustainable farming by revealing the mechanisms that fungi use to infect plants. |
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Kunal Kundu Receives Outstanding Graduate Assistant AwardFebruary 13, 2020 - Please join us in congratulating Kunal Kundu for receiving an Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from the UMCP Graduate School. |
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IBBR Request for Proposals (RFP): GMP Biomanufacturing Facility Available - Rockville, MarylandThe Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) is accepting proposals to lease a bio-manufacturing facility configured to produce biologicals under cGMP conditions in compliance with FDA requirements for phase I/II clinical trials. The facility is also equipped to perform process development research, pre-clinical manufacturing for material necessary to conduct IND-enabling toxicology studies, proof of concept (POC) studies, and process demonstration in advance of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) manufacturing. |
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IBBR-REFI Travel Fellowship: Spring 2020 Application OpenFebruary 7, 2020 - The IBBR-REFI Travel Fellowship supports UMCP graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working on projects aligned with the institutes' shared missions. |
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Fighting Acne: A New Approach Sourced From VirusesIBBR researchers receive funding to explore the use of viral proteins against the bacteria that cause acne (Rockville, MD, February 4, 2020) IBBR Fellow Dr. Daniel Nelson received a Technology Assessment award from the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) to support development of a new, easy-to -use, topical treatment modality for acne based on his endolysin research. |
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Revealing the Key to Hypervirulent C. difficile Toxin DeliveryJanuary 31, 2020 - A large team of researchers, led by IBBR Associate Director David Weber, recently published the structure of a toxin from a hypervirulent C. difficile strain. Their work is highlighted on the cover of Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences USA (PNAS). |
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IBBR Launches BioNEXUS MagazineDecember 11, 2019 -- IBBR is pleased to share the inaugural issue of a new magazine, BioNEXUS. |
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