Sentences with phrase «on melanoma research»

The first session focused on the melanoma research being carried out in Essen.

By sharing this work through GenoMEL, an international collaboration on melanoma research, Professor Bishop will also speed up further developments in the field so that patients can benefit from the findings even sooner.

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For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.

«We thought our assays weren't working,» recalls Markovic, a hematologist and oncologist whose research focuses on developing immunotherapies for melanoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

They are following up on some of the parallel pathways downstream of PAK to determine how they operate, and are also pursuing research into immunotherapy approaches in melanoma treatment.

Research teams focused on both cutaneous and uveal melanoma are fast - tracking discoveries into the clinical setting, and bringing novel therapeutic options to patients in the Philadelphia region,» said Karen Knudsen, Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

Dr Wells» team has previously published research on the importance of PAK4 in other types of cancer, including prostate, breast and melanoma.

Moreover, many people don't apply the proper amount of sunscreen, forget to reapply and missed to apply on all exposed areas resulting in sunburn and increased risk of melanoma,» said Reza Ghiasvand, a PhD candidate at The Department of Biostatistics and a member of the research group «Epidemiological Studies of Lifestyle and Chronic Diseases.»

The team expected to find obesity to be harmful for melanoma patients, based in part on research that implicates obesity in activation of a cancer - promoting molecular pathway called IGF - 1 / PI3K / AKT.

«Our findings point to two potential impacts from additional research — analyzing the diversity and composition of the microbiome to predict response to immunotherapy and modulating the gut microbiome to enhance treatment,» said Wargo, senior researcher on the project and co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.

Many of these genes are usually switched off in adults, but previous research has shown that in many cancers — including prostate, ovarian, and brain cancer, melanoma, and leukemia — HOX genes are switched back on, helping the cancer cells to proliferate and survive.

New research on innovative immunotherapies for advanced or high - risk melanoma and cervical cancer were presented today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Nell Barrie, Cancer Research UK's senior science information manager, said: «This is an excellent piece of research that adds rich detail to our understanding of how melanoma cells develop resistance to drugs — and how we can tackle this Research UK's senior science information manager, said: «This is an excellent piece of research that adds rich detail to our understanding of how melanoma cells develop resistance to drugs — and how we can tackle this research that adds rich detail to our understanding of how melanoma cells develop resistance to drugs — and how we can tackle this head on.

For a number of years, Wolchok had been conducting research on immunotherapies for patients with metastatic melanoma.

Further research uncovered a broad spectrum of cell surface stem cell markers (e.g., CD133, CD44, and CD24) that allow the identification of CSCs in human solid tumors, including brain, breast, prostate, pancreas, liver, ovary, skin, colon cancers, and melanoma (3 - 6)(Figure 1 based on 7).

Katherine was part of ground - breaking research in 2016 that found that inflammation in melanoma tumours could impact on the immune system's anti-cancer responses.

In close collaboration with oncologists at the Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI), the technology was tested on blood samples from melanoma patients and was able to track critical changes in spreading tumor cells before, during and after treatment.

At first, analyzing a patient's surgically removed tumor and developing a vaccine against 10 specific targets on the tumor took nine months, says Greg Lizée, Ph.D., associate professor of Melanoma Medical Oncology, whose research focuses on the immune system.

Overall, despite the dramatic therapeutic advances made elsewhere in the melanoma field, the poor prognosis of patients with mucosal melanoma mandates continued emphasis on laboratory and clinical research efforts in this rare subset of disease.

Since my strong motivation in cancer research, I was selected to be part of this amazing group of young researchers and contribute with my work towards a most extensive knowledge on melanoma.

Shea's research focuses on melanoma, investigating its origins, tumor markers, and treatment.

Researchers at the University of Chicago are studying kidney cancer, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are testing this therapy against colon cancer, and researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center are continuing the research on melanoma.

This non-profit Consortium was set up in 1997 and is comprised of the majority of research groups worldwide, working on the genetics of familial melanoma.

Faculty and governmental relations leaders in the Melanoma Moon Shot and the Cancer Prevention and Control Platform provided educational information about indoor tanning and cancer risk to Texas legislators and served as the primary clinical and research resources on the Texas prohibition law, which took effect in September 2013.

Efforts to understand the mechanisms that drive melanoma have spurred research into vitiligo, a condition that generates white patches on the skin that appear o...

This page features information on melanoma and immunotherapy for melanoma patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to people with melanoma.

In 1981, Herlyn became an assistant professor and established a laboratory that is, today, one the largest and best - known research groups on the study of melanoma biology.

At the National Human Genome Research Institute, she's studying drug resistance in melanoma and in the lab performs Western blots on the gene products of SOX10 and PTEN.

To finish the day the delegates were treated to a guest lecture by Jean - Christophe Marine, Director of the VIB Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology at K.U.Leuven, who presented a clear and fascinating insight into current research focusing on targeting melanoma minimal residual disease.

Between 2005 and 2011 GenoMEL was funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of $ 10.45 million, however in recent years GenoMEL has continued to evolve, giving rise to BioGenoMEL (a daughter consortium focusing on understanding the genetics of survival from melanoma) and most recently the MELGEN consortium which itself is funded by a $ 4.8 million grant through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 641458.

The second session focused on melanoma susceptibility genes featuring the research of ESR03, Marina Juraleviciute, on MX2, a gene identified as a melanoma suscepitlity gene by the GWAS consortium; and ESR01, Aravind Sankar, who discussed the finctional effect of gene mutations which contribute to melanoma development.

Efforts to understand the mechanisms that drive melanoma have spurred research into vitiligo, a condition that generates white patches on the skin that appear on different parts of the body.

The main focus of my research program is on design and preclinical evaluation of novel therapeutic strategies for treatment of metastatic cancers, including breast cancer and melanoma.

The international melanoma genetics consortium GenoMEL (www.genomel.org) has carried out research to identify inherited genetic variation which increases risk of melanoma, and on their website there are summaries of the results of that research.

Much of the research focuses on the genomic changes that occur in numerous cancer types, such as breast, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancers, as well as leukemia, glioma and melanoma.

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