[bioundgrd] Fwd: Cancer therapy and HIV vaccine research: Summer UROPers wanted

[Janice Chang]

If you are interested in this UROP, please respond to:
Yuki Hori (yukih at mit.edu) and Anna Bershteyn (fiend at mit.edu).


>Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:08:58 -0400
>     From: Anna Bershteyn <abershteyn at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: fiend at MIT.EDU
>  Subject: cancer therapy and HIV vaccine research: summer UROPs wanted
>       To: ec-discuss at mit.edu, d-lab-fall at mit.edu, esg-social at mit.edu,
>phislammajamma at mit.edu
>
>An exciting summer UROP position has opened in my lab on recruitment
>of T cells to tumors for cancer therapy! My colleague Yuki Hori is
>studying formation of ectopic lymph nodes as a way to get a patient's
>own immune system to fight cancer.
>
>I may also be accepting another UROP for my HIV vaccine project, which
>will hopefully involve pilot trials in mice as early as this summer!
>(More on that below.)
>
>This is a great way to learn powerful lab techniques, help the fight
>against cancer and HIV, and have a fun summer job. If you're
>interested, please email both Yuki Hori (yukih at mit.edu) and me
>(fiend at mit.edu).
>
>Thanks!
>  Anna Bershteyn
>  Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
>
>On 2/2/07, Anna Bershteyn <abershteyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Hi folks,
>>
>>  I'm a Materials Science Ph.D. student looking for a UROP to help me
>>  with a vaccine design project. You'll get to make biodegradable --
>>  FDA-friendly ;-) -- polymer particles that display HIV peptides and
>>  target them to cells that could make neutralizing antibodies against
>>  HIV.
>>
>>  Depending on your interests, you could focus on the
>>  polymers/biomaterials side of making biomimetic beads that do cool
>>  things; or you could focus on the biological side of testing of the
>>  vaccine particles in human blood cells, transgenic mice, maybe
>>  eventually even human skin grafted onto mice.
>>
>>  I'm looking for someone who'd be interested in a long-term UROP (>1
>>  year). You should like cooking (chemistry isn't so different ;-P ) and
>>  big toys, like lasers, microscopes, flow cytometers.
>>
>>  Please feel free to fwd this to anyone who might be interested, and
>>  have them email me at fiend at mit.edu
>>
>>  Thanks!
>  >  Anna
>>