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Hannes Kalscheuer, Nichole Danzl, Takashi Onoe,Ted Faust, Robert Winchester, Robin Goland, Ellen Greenberg, Thomas R. Spitzer, David G. Savage, Hiroyuki Tahara, Goda Choi, Yong-Guang Yang, Megan SykesWednesday, March 14, 2012Studies of human immune diseases are generally limited to the analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes of heterogeneous patient populations. Improved models are needed to allow analysis of fundamental immunologic abnormalities predisposing to disease and in which to assess immunotherapies. Immunodeficient mice receiving...Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists have developed a way to recreate an individual's immune system in a mouse.Wednesday, March 14, 2012Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists have developed a way to recreate an individual's immune system in a mouse. The "personalized immune mouse" offers researchers an unprecedented tool for individualized analysis of abnormalities that contribute to type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases...
P&S Magazine, Spring 2011Thursday, August 4, 2011Dr. Sykes discusses the CCTI's commitment to the strategy of preventing attacks on donated organs by the creation of a chimeric immune system within the transplant patient; one that is part donor and part recipient.Anette Wu, MD, PhDFriday, July 1, 2011Induction of Liver Allograft Tolerance through Bone Marrow Transplantation: Translational Preclinical Pilot Study in MonkeysNichole M. Danzl, PhDFriday, July 1, 2011Cell intrinisc immunopathology of type 1 diabetes in a humanized mouse model
