Sentences with phrase «at a national cancer»

UCSD's renowned Cancer Therapeutics Training Program, also known as CT2, addresses the shortage of professionals qualified to oversee the development of innovative, new cancer drugs through its two - year intensive post-doctoral student training at National Cancer Institute - designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

Dean Hamer, the chief of gene structure and regulation at the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Biochemistry, wrote recently in Scientific American about his vision of a not - too - distant future in which an imaginary couple, Syd and Kayla, got to tweak the emotional makeup of their fetus.

It's hardly surprising, then, that a 2010 study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute found that nearly 40 percent of the calories American children eat come from empty calories — cookies, sodas, pizza and the rest.

He completed training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Oncology at the National Cancer Institute.

«Presumably, most of the spending will occur at the National Cancer Institute (NCI),... [b] ut one worry for biomedical researchers is that plumping up certain NCI programs partway into the fiscal year will force the institute to divert funds from other programs.

The next stop on my career journey is the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Both had their latest children in the United States but will be taking up fellowships in their native countries — Belletti at the National Cancer Institute in Aviano, Italy, and Unk at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Szeged.

At the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, hematologist James Kochenderfer's waiting list is driven by the two or three CAR - T cell products a month he's able to secure from the agency's facility.

Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) because they feel they don't need to have it, according to a Cancer Research UK survey presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

Editors» Note: Alex Dent was a postdoc at the National Cancer Institute on the campus of the National Institutes of Health from 1992 to 1998.

Dr. Gupta, who has advanced training in the technique at the National Cancer Institute, leads the program at Loyola.

I am currently lab manager at the laboratory of molecular pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute.

«It was a predictable outcome for those of us who believe in the technology already» says Mark Schiffman, who leads research into HPV at the National Cancer Institute in Washington DC.

Biden did help secure a $ 264 - million cash infusion in the most recent government spending bill that will support cancer work at the National Cancer Institute, but the obstacles to attacking cancer effectively are more than just financial.

Kenneth Kraemer, a dermatologist at the National Cancer Institute who was not involved in the project, is impressed by the results.

In March, in fact, Kenneth Gibbs, a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, suggested to Science Careers that universities should expand their criteria of scientific accomplishment to include scientists» broader involvement in community and social causes.

Invisible tattoos could replace the permanent dark ink tattoos used to ensure that breast cancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in exactly the same spot during each session, according to results from a pilot study to be presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference.

«Sometimes postdocs lose motivation if they feel that the project is not theirs,» says Ana Gamero, principal investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland.

Tom Misteli, a cell biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, considers the map a «framework for future work.»

It hits many desirable highlights: postdoc experiences as a Fullbright scholar and a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), many dozens of published papers and patents, and a long list of impressive job titles from drug companies to law and venture capital firms to state economic development organizations.

It's a problem that Chand Khanna recognized when he arrived at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1997 to do a postdoc.

Like Goel, Christie Anne Canaria, 2013 — 15 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Cancer Institute's Small Business Innovation Research (NCI SBIR) Development Center, never thought she could have a career in government.

The «payline,» or success rate, for bread - and - butter investigator grants (R01s) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) this year, after peer approval, will drop to 11 %, compared to 22 % 4 years ago.

Five months later, a top official at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) told a congressional panel that published scientific data indicates cell phones are safe.

She recently started a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The biggest issue will be price,» says John Schiller, a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, who did some of the early work that led to the vaccine's development.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

«Family history now matters more than ever,» says Stephen Chanock, a pediatric oncologist and head of the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.

In 1996, I relinquished an endowed chair of oncology at UNC Chapel Hill to become the scientific director of the Division of Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) near Washington, D.C..

He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney studying cancer cell biology, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

As part of a DNA study of the world's cats, Stephen O'Brien and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, collected blood and tissue samples from 209 puma in zoos, museums, and the wild across North and Central America, and from 106 of the animals in South America.

Donna Vogel is director of the Fellowship Office at the National Cancer Institute and co-chair of the ORWH Research Subcommittee.

Researchers have discovered that a marker found on aggressive prostate cancer cells could also be used as a way to guide treatments to the cancer, according to new research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

The session featured Sadis Matalon, associate dean of the Office of Postdoctoral Education at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB); Jonathan Wiest, associate director for Training and Education at the National Cancer Institute's (NCI?s) Center for Cancer Research (CCR); and Mary Anne With, director of Institutional Oversight for the Postdoctoral Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

«First of all, it is not known how often PSA testing saves lives,» says Howard Parnes, an oncologist at the National Cancer Institute.

«Little is known about how social media use affects adolescent health behaviors,» said Huang, who now is a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute.

«What you really want to know is if there's anything in there that can cause biological activity,» says molecular biologist Gordon Hager, at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who developed the assay.

Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens were at increased risk of subsequently developing stomach cancer, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

In one of his last actions as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley is concerned about intramural researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) who take a dozen or more trips a year for which their expenses are paid by outside groups.

Stretch out all of the genomes in all of your body's trillions of cells, says Tom Misteli, the head of the cell biology of genomes group at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and it would make 50 round trips to the sun.

«We were very excited to hear that we have money to continue operations,» says two - time shutdown veteran Al Singer, chief of the Experimental Immunology Branch at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Gallo, then a division chief at the National Cancer Institute, made the connection between HIV and AIDS in research published in 1984 in the journal Science.

A postdoc retreat at the National Cancer Institute provides career development training for the attendees and organizers.

«Based on what we have seen, in the past 10 years or so we don't see that the numbers have started to plateau,» says Anil Chaturvedi, an investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute.

Although most of the work has been carried out using in vivo studies, Asst Prof Gasser has been collaborating with Dr Joanne Ngeow at the National Cancer Centre Singapore to characterise the process in different types of human tumours.

A team working at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, in collaboration with scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that tamoxifen also works by encouraging the cells surrounding a tumour to produce a «growth factor».

Dean Hamer, a chief scientist at the National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health, has been out for his entire 30 - year career in the federal government.

• African Elephants Aren't All Alike A landmark study of the DNA of African elephants by Alfred Roca and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute last year confirmed that there are more than two species — Asian and African — of pachyderms.

Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.

He went on to describe the $ 215 million initiative, which includes new support for cancer genomics and molecularly targeted drug trials at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and a plan to study links among genes, health, and environment in 1 million Americans by pooling participants in existing cohort studies.