We are happy to have published two new papers with our collaborators over the past two weeks. The first paper was published with our collaborators Dr. Warren Lee and Dr. Greg Fairn, both from the St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where we identified the mechanisms mediating the transport of HDL (good cholesterol) into the brain. Unlike […]
Our first preprint is now available @biorxivpreprint This one’s for the biophysicists! https://t.co/9s7VEwG793 — Bryan Heit (@BryanHeit) October 26, 2017
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We are excited to announce that Charles Yin has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canada’s most prestigious scholarship for doctoral students. Charles is a MD/PhD student in the Heit lab, and was 1 of 55 students selected by the CIHR for this award. The Vanier award was established by the Government of Canada “to strengthen Canada’s ability to attract and retain world-class
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We are excited to announce the publication of a follow-up paper to last-years study of Rab17 mediate sorting of antigens. In our first study we identified Rab17 as a protein which allowed macrophages to prevent generating immune responses after engulfing dead cells (a process termed efferocytosis), while still allowing macrophages to generate immune responses after engulfing pathogens.
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