2014, Volume 2 - Issue 1

INTERVIEW Article

Discoveries Interview: Prof. Jack Lawler on the discovery and significance of thrombospondins

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Dr. Jack Lawler is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Division of Cancer Biology and Angiogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
He received his PhD in Physics from Boston College in 1976, and performed postdoctoral training at the Dana Farber Cancer Center. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Lawler's laboratory has utilized a wide range of technologies to elucidate the structure and function of the thrombospondins. He has authored over 200 publications and has co-authored the book "The Thrombospondin Gene Family". In 1996, Dr. Lawler joined the Department of Pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he is currently the Director of the Division of Cancer Biology and Angiogenesis and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Read more 

EXPERIMENTAL Articles

Novel insights into the mechanism of cell-based therapy after chronic myocardial infarction

Alexander Schuh, Britta Butzbach, Adelina Curaj, Sakine Simsekyilmaz, Octavian Bucur, Isabela Kanzler, Bernd Denecke, Simone Konschalla, Andreas Kroh, Tolga Taha Sönmez, Nikolaus Marx and Elisa A. Liehn
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Corresp. author's affiliation: IMCAR, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

REVIEWS Articles

Blood Transfusion in the 21st Century

Mark T. Friedman, Vaidehi Avadhani, Sandra Gilmore and Emilio Madrigal
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Corresp. author's affiliation: St. Luke’s, Roosevelt, and Beth Israel Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

DNA bending in the synaptic complex in V(D)J recombination: turning an ancestral transpososome upside down

Mihai Ciubotaru, Marius Surleac, Mihaela G. Musat, Andreea M. Rusu, Elena Ionita, Paul C. C. Albu
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Corresp. author's affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

FOCUSED REVIEWS and PERSPECTIVE Articles

Unfolded Protein Response and Cancer

Lihua Wu, Mary Chou and Shudong Zhu
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Corresp. author's affiliation: Central South University, Changsha, China

New agents for the treatment of lymphoid leukemia and lymphoma: Focus on Recent FDA Approvals

Andreea Lucia Stancu, Mitchell R. Smith and Alexandru Almasan
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Corresp. author's affiliation: Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA