The continued success of protein therapeutics has put a strain on industry's ability to meet the large demand. Creating a more productive expression host for the manufacture of these proteins is a potential solution. ...

Many major human oncogenes contribute to cancer in large part by activating the mitogenactivated protein kinases (MAPK) ERK1 and ERK2 (ERK). These kinases are critical in normal physiological processes from development to ...

The two most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's Disease (CD), which affect more than 1 million Americans. Recently the incidence of IBD has been rising in Japan, Europe ...

The work presented in this thesis explores two novel and complementary facets of endogenous DNA damage: the development of biomarkers of inflammation based on metabolites of DNA damage products and the formation of DNA ...

Non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer and is the leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide. The past decade has seen exciting advances in the development of targeted therapies ...

Autologous bone marrow grafting has been shown to aid in the healing of bone defects since the 1950s. Transplantation of freshly-aspirated autologous bone marrow, together with a scaffold, is a promising clinical alternative ...

Immunization is a powerful approach for the prevention and control of infectious disease, however despite the successes of modem vaccine development, there remain several notable obstacles for the advancement of vaccine-mediated ...

New techniques to both prevent and treat the disease malaria are necessary. To develop these novel strategies, innovative tools must be designed to study the basic biology within Plasmodium falciparum and characteristics ...