Sentences with phrase «runyon cancer research fund»

It may also lower your risk of developing cancer of the esophagus, although there is less evidence for this, according to the World Cancer Research Fund.

When you do, Electrolux will donate $ 1 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

Electrolux and Kelly Ripa are proud to support the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund whose mission is to fund research to find a method of early detection and ultimately a cure for Ovarian Cancer.

The remaining 25 % of net dollars raised, $ 2.5 million since its inception, goes to the Komen national breast cancer research fund.

AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.

For every vote, Electrolux is donating $ 1 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research.

Of all of Silver's crimes, the most disturbing was his abuse of cancer research funding, steering it to a doctor who sent him lucrative asbestos referrals.

A review of 7,000 studies by the World Cancer Research Fund found a third of cancers are attributable to diet and found at least six cancers for which obesity was a major risk factor.

«It's wonderful that we now have the Tessa Jowell brain cancer research fund and hope we will support that, so that others won't suffer in the awful way that she suffered.

One question posed whether the candidates would support annual increases in cancer research funding for the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute.

The President himself set a high bar for science funding when he at various times pledged to double basic research, physical science, and cancer research funding on the campaign trail.

The plan also describes a Vice President's Exceptional Opportunities in Cancer Research Fund that will fund «high - risk, high - return research» identified with help from researchers, advocates, and industry.

After scouring the job ads in Nature and Science, without seeing what I wanted, I came across a very short description for the job I ended up taking at the Cancer Research Fund.

She was on her way out to a pub after a scientific conference when she spotted Paul Nurse, who was working on cell - cycle regulation at Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

I was responsible for doing the annual fireworks display at the then - Imperial Cancer Research Fund and decided to retreat to the local pub for some lunchtime refreshment with my fellow gunpowder conspirators so that we could plan the event.

This study was funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Knowledge Transfer Network, the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Research UK and Barts Charity.

The discovery «could open up a whole new field,» says Tomas Lindahl, a biochemist with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

The World Cancer Research Fund estimates that about one quarter to one third of all cancers in the United States can be attributed to diet and insufficient physical activity, as well as overweight and obesity.

The trials were supervised by Gerald Beattie of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Medical Oncology Unit in Edinburgh.

In fiscal year 2005, The Hutch received more than $ 10 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health - the world's largest cancer research funder.

Peter Parker of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London says he is delighted that a drug targeting signal transduction is now in trials.

The UK spends the most, and has seen around a 9 percent growth in cancer research funding over the past five years — supported mainly by charities — with # 343 million spent in 2005 by the partners of the UK's National Cancer Research Institute.

This study was supported by the Arthur R. Sekerak Cancer Research Fund a Yale Cancer Center philanthropic fund.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

Toone first got turned on to the value of research administration during his postdoc at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF; currently Cancer Research UK) in London, UK.

A multinational research team led by Richard Wood of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall laboratories in Hertfordshire has recreated this vital mechanism, called nucleotide excision repair (NER), in the test tube.

Funding for the study was provided by the University Cancer Research Fund and UNC Lineberger.

Last autumn Jean Weissenbach and Marc Lathrop came up with a new type of genetic map which makes it possible to map most single genes in «months instead of years», according to Nigel Spurr, a cancer researcher and gene mapper at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

According to Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, by next year 41 per cent of deaths among Eastern European men aged between 35 and 69 will be attributable to smoking.

As part of their cancer prevention efforts, leading cancer organizations, such as the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the World Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF / AICR) have published recommendations on diet and physical activity.

The Nobel prize - winning biochemist who has steered the scientific arm of Texas's $ 3 - billion cancer research fund is stepping down citing concerns over the agency's funding process.

EMBL, meanwhile, has not stood still in defending its position among a pantheon of top European cell biology research centers, which includes the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London and the Marie Curie and Pasteur Institutes in Paris.

Last year the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), Britain's second largest backer of cancer research, spent about Pounds sterling 100 000 on prostate cancer research, trifling compared with Pounds sterling 4.7 million on research into breast cancer.

He still puts in a full day's work and more — unpaid — at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.

It is sponsored jointly by two large cancer charities, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign, but the MRC continues to object.

Worldwide, prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer in men, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International.

The university recruited him with one of the first awards for established investigators from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), a $ 3 billion, 10 - year cancer research fund along the lines of California's stem cell initiative.

One of the key issues in an uproar over grantmaking that has roiled Texas's $ 3 billion cancer research fund receded yesterday when the agency's board approved $ 39 million in research grants that it had set aside earlier this year.

Texas's $ 3 billion cancer research fund is taking more steps to defuse a controversy over the role of scientific review in making grant decisions.

The study, funded by the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, examined the role of Hedgehog, whose usual job is to send signals to cells in embryos to divide and grow into the correct body parts.

Maggie Blanks, CEO of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, said: «Professor Magee's findings add further weight to a growing body of evidence which points to Hedgehog signalling as an important driver of pancreatic cancer.

The study was also funded by National Health and Medical Research Council Australia, Breast Cancer Research Fund, and AstraZeneca.

Now, however, a team led by Merajver and another headed by Ellen Solomon and John Trowsdale of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London say that they have both found damaged copies of BRCA1 in ovarian tumours from women with no family history of cancer (Nature Genetics, vol 9, p 343 and 439).

This work was supported by EMBO (ALTF 739-2011), the Charles A. King trust, the Koch Institute Frontier Research Program, the Kathy and Curt Marble Cancer Research Fund, the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust, National Institutes of Health (NIH K08NS064168), the Valvano Foundation, and the Jared Branfman Sunflowers for Life Fund for Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cancer Research.

JRM was a fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund (DRG 1677).

My research has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Defense, Stand Up to Cancer, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the Foundation for Women's Cancer, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and Cycle for Survival.

Postdoc (1993 - 1997) in de groep van Graham Warren, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (nu Cancer Research UK), Londen, UK