Career Goals: As a physician scientist, my goal is to undertake translational research
into pediatric cancers, particularly, relapsed leukemia and harness the immune system to provide durable immunity against this disease.
«Incorporating genomic sequencing, counseling
into pediatric cancer treatment shows benefit.»
(But it's not all bad news; the money that used to be earmarked for nominating conventions now goes toward the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which helps fund research
into pediatric cancer and disease.)
Not exact matches
The reality is not «gentle proteins», cute pink hearts or «probiotics just like those in breastmilk» but dirty contaminated bottles, diarrhea, babies screaming with pain from otitis media, babies separated from their mothers in
pediatric wards with acute respiratory disease, damaged guts that morph
into chronic lifelong conditions such as Crohn's disease, more women dying of breast
cancer, the cost and pain of living a life with diabetes and lives cut short because of cardiac disease and so on.
Into the cerebral cortex of mice with these light - sensitive proteins, the team implanted
cancer cells from a human
pediatric cortical glioblastoma.
In addition, as more children continue to survive
pediatric cancer, that counseling may extend
into a patient's adulthood and old age.
The network combines many smaller highly specialized groups — focused on areas such as
pediatric, breast, bowel or gynecological
cancers —
into a few large cooperative groups in order to enhance system integration and cooperation.
Dr. Gibbs also gave an overview of their investigations
into heritable variants in
pediatric cancers (in collaboration with MD Anderson).
These initial findings have paved the way to expand the program
into a more comprehensive
pediatric precision oncology program that researchers expect to launch in 2016, which will include offering sequencing to
pediatric cancer patients diagnosed at other hospitals.
When the researchers inserted that mutation
into mice, the result was an undifferentiated
pediatric sarcoma (
cancer of connective tissue), as might be expected due to the arrest of the stem cell's development caused by the K36 mutation.
Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (
pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths
into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.
It is considered similar to
pediatric osteosarcoma in humans, a bone
cancer that usually develops during the period of rapid growth that occurs in adolescence, as a teenager matures
into an adult.