James O McNamara
The University of Iowa, USA
Biography
James McNamara had studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia (BS in 1992), Neurobiology at Duke University (PhD in 2003) and then completed a Post-doc at Duke University where he developed RNA based therapeutic approaches for cancer. He joined the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa in 2007. His research is focused on developing rapid clinical diagnostic assays for bacterial infectious diseases based on selective detection of pathogen-derived nuclease activities.
Abstract
Abstract : Bacterial nucleases as signal-amplifying biomarkers for infectious disease diagnostics