Golden Jubilee Travel Fellowship 2016

The golden jubilee of vaccination against poliomyelitis.

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), developed in the USA by Jonas Salk in the early 1950s, was field tested in 1954, and found to be safe and effective. The year 2004 marks the golden jubilee of this breakthrough. From 1955 IPV was used extensively in the US and polio incidence declined by more than 95 per cent. However, in 1962, when oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) became available, the nation...

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre celebrates golden jubilee

The establishment of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was a turning point for high‐standard postgraduate training in various medical disciplines in the country. The institute attracted many leading teachers and clinicians for its faculty from medical colleges in India and abroad. There was a congenial atmosphere to excel in all aspects of medical education, clinical services,...

The Golden Jubilee Number of the Anticeptic

EACR Travel Fellowship Awards

A key characteristic of malignant cancers is the ability to overcome microenvironmental controls by host, invade tissue, and reach distant sites of the body to form metastases. Cancer cells can induce profound changes in the neighbouring tissue, which in turn provides an environment that favours local tumour growth, metastatic spreading, and contributes to drug response. The host microenvironme...

EACR Travel Fellowship Awards

Rabs are initially synthesized as soluble proteins; for membrane attachment they require a posttranslational C20-prenylation. Rab GTPases are localized to the cytosolic face of the limiting membrane of organelles, where they function as regulators of distinct steps in membrane trafficking pathways. Rabs cycle between a GTP-bound active and a GDPbound inactive form, assisted by GEFs (guanine nuc...