CU Anschutz In The News

Kelly Sullivan, a molecular biologist at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus who was not involved in the work, agrees that the data showing USP18 in the blood cells aren’t the most compelling, but notes that low levels of a protein don’t preclude it from having a large effect. He says that the data comparing DS and healthy blood cells do validate the authors’ claim that the DS cells are partially desensitized.

Instead, he became a research technician in a microscopy lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where he helped researchers design experiments to view everything from single cells to ant brains. “It was a position that allowed a lot of creativity,” he says.

“Using this approach to target and reprogram immune cells represents an innovative application for cardiovascular medicine and opens up exciting opportunities for developing novel therapeutics,” Ronald Vagnozzi and Timothy McKinsey, heart researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who were not involved in the study, write in a joint email to The Scientist.

To navigate the political, cultural, and language barriers that come with researching pregnancy in another country, Colleen Glyde Julian says she channels the properties of chewing gum. Julian, an integrative physiologist at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, says that remaining flexible under grinding pressure is “the defining characteristic that somebody must have to do this kind of work”—wisdom she cultivated as a PhD student working under another Anschutz researcher, biomedical anthropologist Lorna Grindlay Moore. “You just have to take it all in stride.”

A few years ago, microbiologist Catherine Louzopone and colleagues at the University of Colorado School of Medicine were studying metabolism-related health problems in men and women infected with HIV. Previous research had suggested that T cells with higher metabolic activity might be more susceptible to viral infection.