Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CHMC)

The Challenge

Professor Assem G. Ziady is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the UC College of Medicine. He has over 30-years experience as a medical researcher. His research focuses on the differential regulation of Nrf2 signaling pathways in the inflammatory lung disease cystic fibrosis. His lab also has unique expertise in DNA nanoparticles for nonviral gene delivery to the lung, liver, and brain, and in proteomic analyses for biomarker discovery and the examination of systems biology of various tissues. He is an inventor on five patents related to DNA nanoparticles. 

The Ziady lab wanted to publish a manuscript in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology on their groundbreaking research on cystic fibrosis. This manuscript was to be 5000-words long and was to report on the bronchoalveolar lavage of patients for proteomic analysis and the difference in inflammation experienced by “normal sick” and “cystic fibrosis sick” patients. Working in a busy children’s hospital, they did not, however, have the bandwidth to develop a submission-ready manuscript. They therefore turned to PhD|Advantage to collaborate with our expert team of professional writers and editors on this project.

The Solution

Professor Ziady provided PhD|Advantage with a first draft of the  manuscript and its figures that he prepared based on their data. Over ten weeks, and led by one of our Managing Editors, PhD|Advantage helped Professor Ziady’s team to develop this manuscript by working closely with them on each section of it  and its figures. A file-sharing platform dedicated to this project was used to communicate editorial changes to Professor Ziady’s team on a section-by-section basis. For each section deadline, the CHMC team had four days to examine the edits and to provide feedback to the managing editor at PhD|Advantage. We delivered X, Y, and Z.

The Value

“You have data and expertise, we have great writing skills. We can work with you to develop your paper from scratch.”