Industry & Policy News

[Nature Immunology] Determining the immune crosstalk between macrophages and NK cells in bronchioalveolar lavage fluid during SARS-CoV-2 infection in macaques identifies immunoregulatory properties of NK cells and their implications for viral persistence.

[ScienceInsider] Researchers clash over the growing practice of reflecting on one’s identity in a “positionality statement”.

[Yale School of Medicine] Two junior faculty in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. Emilia Favuzzi, PhD, assistant professor, and Tristan Geiller, PhD, incoming assistant professor in January 2024, are being honored with the 2023 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience.

[University of Southern California] University of Southern California (USC) faculty members Adam Leventhal, PhD and Caryn Lerman, PhD have received a $20 million grant for research to inform government regulations overseeing tobacco and its marketing, with a focus on protecting young people.

[LUNGevity Foundation] LUNGevity Foundation continues its multifaceted investment in the thoracic oncology workforce by announcing the recipients of four awards.

[ISS National Lab] To better understand the mechanisms behind the decline of liver regeneration in the elderly, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco will send tissue chips containing liver cells and immune cells to space.