Sentences with phrase «at a cancer research»
«That's just the nature of a big company,» says Richon, whose 28 - year career has included roles at cancer research centers and Merck (mrk).
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The executive director of policy at Cancer Research UK reveals how research underpins all progress made in the battle against cancer
His case was assigned to his friend Blundy, then a technology transfer manager at Cancer Research Technology, who was charged with helping him create a commercial spinoff.
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.
Caetano Reis e Sousa, head of the immunobiology lab at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute, sounds says the work is «exciting» but cautions that it is at an early stage.
Dr Iain Foulkes, director of research and innovation at Cancer Research UK, said: «We urgently need new insights and treatments to tackle glioblastomas, one of the most common and difficult to treat forms of brain tumours.
«Most scientists would respond well to a speculative email saying that you really love their work and you want to come and work with them,» says Simon Vincent, head of research funding at Cancer Research UK, based in London.
«I've been [at the Cancer Research Institute] for 28 years, and I have never seen the excitement in the field like this,» O'Donnell - Tormey says.
Peter Sasieni, at Cancer Research UK, who led the study, suggests that HPV testing should be the first step in any screening programme.
Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.
«Mus81 really does play a critical role» in suppressing tumors, says Stephen West, a biochemist at Cancer Research UK in London.
Alison Cox, director of prevention at Cancer Research UK, said: «Giving up smoking can be really tough.
BARCELONA, SPAIN — Many factors influence success in a science career, including hard work, tenacity, flair, and luck, and all of them have played a role in the success of Nobel laureate Tim Hunt, who today is a group leader emeritus at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute.
I then did a PhD on the evaluation of novel anticancer drugs at the Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Nottingham to further my career in industry.
Based at the Cancer Research Institute in New York, Old is the director of the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative, an international program dedicated to fighting cancer from the inside out.
Dr Emma Smith, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Early detection is crucial if we want to cure more cancers and save more lives.
Dr Sarah Bohndiek, scientist at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «This research gives us hope for developing better techniques to detect the disease early.
Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute sprayed a dye on esophageal tissue samples taken from people with Barrett's esophagus — a condition that increases the risk of developing esophageal cancer.
Sarah Williams, health information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «This study further highlights the importance of keeping a healthy weight throughout life to reduce the risk of developing these cancers.
Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.
Martin Ledwick, head cancer information nurse at Cancer Research UK, said: «There's evidence to show that exercise is beneficial and safe for cancer patients.
From my postdoctoral work at the Cancer Research Institute at Arizona State University in Tempe, US, to the 5 years I spent working at Griffith University's Queensland Pharmaceutical Research Institute (now called AstraZeneca R&D Griffith University) in Brisbane, Australia, my research has gravitated towards the pharmaceutical side of natural product research.
Dr Emma Smith, senior science communications officer at Cancer Research UK, said: «Revealing the molecule's detailed shape could be the first step towards designing more precise drugs to block it.
Dr Iain Foulkes, executive director for research funding at Cancer Research UK, said: «We're investing in pioneering ways to improve survival for patients.
«It would have taken our researchers 18 months to do what citizen scientists did in just three months,» says Amy Carton, citizen science lead at Cancer Research UK.
Professor Peter Johnson, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: «The thing we fear most about cancer is how it can spread around the body — this is what causes 90 per cent of all cancer deaths.
In 2008, he joined the group of Caetano Reis e Sousa at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute and later joined the Francis Crick Institute, where he was awarded Marie Curie and EMBO long - term postdoctoral fellowships to investigate innate immune receptors and signaling pathways that trigger dendritic cell activation and drive T - cell responses against viruses or tumors.
Nell Barrie, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «This important research builds on the progress we've made to understand the routes cancer cells use to stay alive.
«Salmonella strains have a natural preference for infiltrating and replicating within the cancer cells of a tumor, making the bacteria an ideal candidate for bacteriotherapy,» said Robert Kazmierczak, a senior investigator at the Cancer Research Center and a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Biological Sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science.
The collection contains over 20,000 different samples of Salmonella, with half of the samples housed at the Cancer Research Center where researchers affiliated with MU focus on three areas of cancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemotherapy.
Nell Barrie, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Finding new uses for existing drugs is a great way to speed up improvements in treatment, as these drugs will have previously been through safety tests.
Now, scientists at the Cancer Research Center and the University of Missouri have developed a non-toxic strain of Salmonella to penetrate and target cancer cells.
Professor Paul Pharoah, professor of cancer epidemiology at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «Our work has found a valuable piece of the puzzle behind ovarian cancer and we hope that our work could eventually form the basis of a genetic test to identify women at greatest risk.
Kazmierczak and the team at the Cancer Research Center (CRC) developed CRC2631, a Salmonella strain that has been genetically modified to render the bacteria nontoxic and enhance its natural ability to target and kill cancer cells — without harming normal, healthy cells.
Dr Claus Jorgensen, who led the research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and at Cancer Research UK's Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester, said: «The next step is to figure out how to keep this receptor switched on, so that the tumour cells can't leave the blood vessels — stopping breast cancer spreading and making the disease easier to treat successfully.»
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Cancer Research Online (http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/).
How did an expert in organic synthesis end up at a cancer research center?
Johanna Roostalu is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute where she is working on a project to elucidate the molecular mechanism of spindle assembly and microtubule self - organization using a combination protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, microfluidics and mathematical modeling.
The WAIF1 antigen was discovered by scientists at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.
Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., CEO and director of scientific affairs at the Cancer Research Institute.
Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «These early results tell us more about why tamoxifen can stop working for some women.
During my degree I completed 6 - month research placements at Cancer Research UK, Southampton and at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.
Since completing her post-doc, Dr Collinson has run biological EM facilities, first at UCL and then at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, which became part of the new Francis Crick Institute in 2015.
On August 1, 2007 she will succeed Lilian Clark, Ph.D., M.B.A. who is leaving CSHL to return to the U.K. to serve as Executive Director of Science Operations and Funding at Cancer Research U.K.. Under Clark's leadership, the Watson School has firmly established its international standing as a premier graduate school.
One possible explanation for this inconsistency has been explored by researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, who have delved into the mechanism behind a weight loss condition, cachexia, which affects many cancer patients.
The award ceremony honoring Drs. Littman, Schumacher, and Wherry will take place at the Cancer Research Institute's 30th Annual Awards Dinner on Tuesday, September 27, 2016, at The Plaza in New York City.
Applications are invited for a Clinical PhD studentship at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Birmingham Centre.
Dr Ian Walker, licensing manager for clinical partnerships at Cancer Research Technology, said: «It is fantastic to see a drug from our CDP programme progressing toward a clinical trial to be tested as a potential new treatment for cancer patients.
Professor John Griffiths, co-lead researcher based at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «The revelation that different types of brain tumours appear to be using similar tricks to survive was startling.
The Cancer Research UK - funded database — known as «canSAR» — has been set up by researchers at Cancer Research UK's Centre for Cancer Therapeutics at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) to create a one - stop - shop for scientists worldwide.