Sentences with phrase «progress against cancer»

Biden, whose son Beau died of cancer last spring, is leading the Obama administration's «cancer moonshot» initiative, which is aimed at producing a decade's worth of progress against cancer in five years.

Vice President Joe Biden today released his vision for doubling progress against cancer over 5 years.

Government and private efforts will produce progress against cancer over the next 10 years that «will eclipse everything that has happened over the previous 50 years, and maybe longer,» he added.

Announced during President Barack Obama's January State of the Union Address, the moonshot project will aim to double progress against cancer in the next 5 years and break down silos that prevent researchers from working together.

«Talented graduate students are a creative and energetic force that will contribute to the kind of innovation required for progress against cancer and other life - threatening diseases.

CAR T - cell therapy was also named as the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Advance of the Year in its Clinical Cancer Advances 2018: ASCO's Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer.

In January 2016, US President Barack Obama announced a new effort to accelerate progress against cancer.

Research led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center members Katherine Hoadley, PhD, research assistant professor in genetics and Chuck Perou, PhD, professor of genetics and pathology, was selected by the American Society of Clinical Oncology for inclusion in Clinical Cancer Advances 2015, the Society's annual review of progress against cancer and emerging trends in the field.

Despite the progress against cancer, however, it is still the number - two killer in the U.S. after heart disease.

Cancer Research UK and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) are launching an international alliance to speed the pace of progress against cancer.