Dr. Howard Moss (OD) is applying his medical training and expertise in several key Roadmap initiatives aimed at re-engineering the clinical research enterprise to speed the translation of basic research discoveries to clinical treatment. Two of these programs, the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) and the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS), were launched in 2006-2007. The CTSAs bring together researchers in diverse areas of science into clinical centers that provide basic and applied training, research opportunities, access to new research tools and technologies, and application to patient care. Dr. Moss serves on the CTSA Translation Committee whose purpose is to analyze and disseminate approaches used by the CTSAs to create an environment that is supportive of translational research. The CTSAs serve as a potential avenue for promoting research related to alcoholism and alcohol-related diseases. The centers are linked nationally by shared data collection, reporting and management systems. For example, the PROMIS program provides standardized measurement tools and questionnaires for collecting, reporting and sharing patient-reported information on factors such as pain, fatigue, physical functioning, emotional distress, and social role, that impact quality of life and may predispose individuals to alcoholism and alcohol-related illness. Dr. Moss has been instrumental in developing clinically and scientifically meaningful alcohol use indicators that are entered into psychometric models to analyze emotional stress. Dr. Moss also represents the NIAAA on several senior advisory boards for the NIH Roadmap tasked with developing and vetting new Roadmap ideas for consideration by the NIH Director, Institute/Center/Office Directors, and the scientific community.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr King reported receiving grants from Pfizer during the conduct of the study and personal fees from the Respiratory Health Association outside the submitted work. Dr de Wit reported being on the board of directors of PharmAla Biotech; being a scientific advisor to Awakn Life Sciences, Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, and Schedule I Therapeutics; and receiving research support from the Beckley Foundation outside the submitted work. Dr Grant reported receiving grants from Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, and Promentis Pharmaceuticals outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.
To help me get started with GPR, my advisor recommended one of the most important books for beginners in this area, Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning. It presented the fundamentals of GPR from the perspectives of both statistics and machine learning. The authors also developed the GPML toolbox, a Matlab and GNU Octave implementation of GPR inference. This was the first open source tool that I came across in this field, and it helped me dive deeper into the engineering side. However, the functionality it provided was a bit limited for us, so I kept on searching for other implementations of GPR. From there, I found GPyTorch, the open source framework that was a huge help later on.
Lastly, aside from any technical proof-of-concept that GPyTorch provided for our research, it also served as an important confidence booster to help me realize the research idea that my advisor and I had was a reality not so far away. From the outside, GPR could seem super complicated and mind-boggling, but by studying through the GPyTorch project, I found it was still all small pieces grouped together, just as any other challenges we meet in our daily lives.
The patched/hedgehog intracellular signaling pathway plays a role in both sporadic BCCs and nevoid BCC syndrome (Gorlin syndrome). This pathway influences differentiation of various tissues during fetal development. After embryogenesis, it continues to function in regulation of cell growth and differentiation. Loss of inhibition of this pathway is associated with human malignancy, including BCC.
Studies have demonstrated a high incidence of TP53 gene mutations in BCC. Researchers speculate that ultraviolet sunlight may play an important role in the genesis of this mutation; yet, genetic involvement has been demonstrated on chromosome 9 only in patients with familial basal cell nevus syndrome (Gorlin syndrome). Such mutation involves the patched (PTCH) gene, a tumor suppressor gene.
Inappropriate activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway is found in both sporadic and familial cases of BCC. This results in loss-of-function mutations in tumor-suppressor protein patched homologue 1 (PTCH1) and gain-of-function mutations in sonic hedgehog (SHH), smoothened (SMO), and Gli.
Odontogenic keratocysts, palmoplantar pitting, intracranial calcification, and rib anomalies may be seen. Mutations in the hedgehog signaling pathway, particularly the patched gene, are causative. [37]
Mark S Granick, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; Professor of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Medical Director, University Hospital Wound Care Center
Mark S Granick, MD, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American Association of Plastic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, New Jersey Society of Plastic Surgeons, Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Phi Beta Kappa, Wound Healing Society
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The director's commentary of the film reveals that then-incumbent President Bill Clinton liked the film so much that he had it screened for his staff, friends, and advisors at the White House.[citation needed]
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