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Category: Autoimmunity

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Readers’ Favorite Webinars: A Year in Review

NanoString webinars allow you to sit back, relax and listen to a leader in the field talk about his/her research and/or answer your questions.  They have always been a crowd-pleaser,…

Laura Tabellini Pierre / March 2, 2020
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How to Resolve the Complexity of Autoimmune Diseases

What are Autoimmune Diseases? Autoimmune diseases are chronic inflammatory conditions, life-long debilitating illnesses with increased mortality, and high healthcare costs for therapy and care. They are systemic conditions characterized by…

Laura Tabellini Pierre / September 16, 2019
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Q&A with Dr. Maureen McGargill, PhD: The Immune System’s Fine Line Between Health and Harm

Dr. McGargill earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota in Dr. Kristin Hogquist’s lab. There she studied T cell development, focusing on how autoreactive T cells are deleted during…

NanoString / August 19, 2019
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Autoimmunity

Identifying Signaling Pathways and Biomarkers in Autoimmune Diseases

As efforts in developing targeted therapies for autoimmune disease are rapidly advancing in basic research, scientists aim to validate immunology-relevant signaling pathways and uncover new intracellular molecules as potential drug…

Laura Tabellini Pierre / June 24, 2019
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Autoimmunity Immunology

Q&A with Dr. Oliver Brain: Unintended Consequences Create a Unique Opportunity to Study Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Oliver Brain, MRCP, PhD, is a principal investigator at the University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, and a recent winner of an nCounter® Autoimmune Profiling Panel through a…

Robin Lynn White / June 3, 2019
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Q&A with Dr. Salla Keskitalo: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Rare and Ultra-rare Autoimmune Diseases

Dr. Salla Keskitalo is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Helsinki and a recent winner of NanoString’s Autoimmunity Grant Program. She made time to speak with us about…

NanoString / April 15, 2019
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Autoimmunity

Q&A with Darragh Duffy, Ph.D. – Understanding the Healthy Human Immune Response with the LabEx Milieu Interieur Project

Darragh Duffy, Ph.D., is the Scientific Manager of the LabEx Milieu Interieur project at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. This ambitious program started in 2011 with the mission to understand…

NanoString / October 10, 2018