Sentences with phrase «science at the cancer»

This question was answered in research published in the current online edition of Molecular Cell, by senior author Eileen White, PhD, associate director for basic science at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and colleagues.

It is our aim at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey to build upon this work,» notes senior author of the work, Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, associate director for translational science at the Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Not exact matches

In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several dozen colleagues at other institutions, reveal that the composition of a patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.

In an interview with Medium Andrew Conrad, head of life sciences at Google X, explained why our current strategy for treating serious diseases, particularly cancer, is fundamentally backwards:

In 2011, at the age of 17, co-founder Shree Bose won $ 50,000 at Google's Science Fair for her research on cancer.

Zach works full - time in the Extramural Research Department at the American Cancer Society and teaches high school life sciences part - time in a hybrid education program he co-founded in 2013.

That's good ol Roy Spencer, creationist and fellow at the ExxonMobil funded Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank and propaganda machine whose past endeavors include working with Philip Morris to question the science linking second hand smoke and cancer.

Sir John Bell, professor of medical sciences at Oxford University and government advisor on human genomics believes this will transform cancer treatment in the UK.

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University.

Regenerating organs for patient transplants, research and policy questions for «smart» vehicles, advances in the fight against cancer, and voter participation in elections will be discussed in Austin, Texas at the 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, the...

The President himself set a high bar for science funding when he at various times pledged to double basic research, physical science, and cancer research funding on the campaign trail.

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

Jennifer Hobin is director of science policy at the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She worked as a science writer and editor at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the American Geophysical Union's newspaper Eos and Smithsonian magazine before becoming a freelancer.

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.

This novel, less invasive way of detecting disease using light salient properties was employed for the first time in 1991 to identify a fingerprint for cancer in tissue by a team led by Robert Alfano, a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York, and director of The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at City College.

In a paper published in the May 5 online issue of The Oncologist, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center detail their experience evaluating 34 patients between December 2012 and June 2013 using a molecular tumor board — a new type of advisory group comprised of multidisciplinary experts, including those in the fields of tumor genetics, basic science and bioinformatics.

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.

Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer.

The researchers, led by Dr Vinay Prasad at Oregon Health & Science University, say their findings «raise concern that the NCCN justifies the coverage of costly, toxic cancer drugs based on weak evidence.»

My interest in the commercial side of science probably began during my MSc course in Biotechnology at University College London (UCL), where I conducted a 4 - month research project at Glaxo R&D on high throughput screening of enzyme inhibitors for cancer prevention.

In our work at the Science Education Partnership (SEP) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), our goal is to provide professional development opportunities for high school science teScience Education Partnership (SEP) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), our goal is to provide professional development opportunities for high school science tescience teachers.

«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.

«I think it's definitely a response to the science, which has consistently shown no correlation,» says David Gorski, a cancer surgeon funded by the National Institutes of Health who in his spare time blogs at Respectful Insolence, a top medical blog known for its provaccine stance.

We rely on DNA science in the clinic to weigh our disease risks or maybe even to look at prognoses for things like cancer.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

«Everyone is working on these [drugs] like crazy,» says David Lane, a cancer biologist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore, and a co-discoverer of p53.

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

«To answer more fundamental questions in diseases, I had to have more background in medical science and had to have more insight into how the human body works,» says Chen, who currently is a research fellow at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute — and has been admitted to the medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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 diCancer 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 dicancer 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 dicancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered new molecular interactions involved in the development of cervical cCancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered new molecular interactions involved in the development of cervical cancercancer.

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.

Young people with body mass indexes (BMIs) over 30 are more likely to experience aggressive malignancies, says author Nathan A. Berger, MD, Hanna - Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine; director of the Center for Science, Health and Society; member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; and professor of medicine, biochemistry, oncology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

In a paper this week in Science, Vogelstein and Cristian Tomasetti, who joined the biostatistics department at Hopkins in 2013, put forth a mathematical formula to explain the genesis of cancer.

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Once stem cells can be grown and differentiated in a controlled way to replace degenerated cells and repair tissues, medical science may then be able to diagnose and cure many intractable diseases at their earliest stages, such as type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, various cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and cancer.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hcancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hcancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public HCancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

Brian Druker, the director of the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.

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.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«Teens should receive all three recommended doses to protect against HPV infections that can persist and lead to cervical cancer,» added Dr. Tiro, also Co-Leader of the Cancer Control and Population Science Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Ccancer,» added Dr. Tiro, also Co-Leader of the Cancer Control and Population Science Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CCancer Control and Population Science Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CCancer Center.

Ultimately, doctors might be able to reduce a person's risk for cancer by analyzing the levels and types of intestinal bacteria in the body, and then prescribing probiotics to replace or bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties, said Robert Schiestl, professor of pathology, environmental health sciences and radiation oncology at UCLA and the study's senior author.

«The long - term vision is simple,» said Saif, who is also part of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I. «Could we make elementary structures and seed them with stem cells that would differentiate into smart structures to deliver drugs, perform minimally invasive surgery or target cancer?»

Yevgeniya is a Senior Editor at Science Translational Medicine, who handles papers in cancer and related topics.

In the address — to be live - streamed beginning at 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time from the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas — Biden will underscore the power and necessity of collaboration across relevant disciplines in science, technology and medicine to summon the knowledge and skills of each and speed advances in cancer care and treatment.

Then, in 1977, he headed back to Texas, as an assistant biochemist at MD Anderson's new Cancer Center Science Park in Smithville.

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Lively also touched on the president's plan to double cancer research at NIH over 8 years, which FASEB opposes because it believes basic science should be supported «across the board.»

And in the third paper, published online today in Science, developmental biologists and stem cell researchers Hugo Snippert, Arnout Schepers, Hans Clevers, and their colleagues at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, used mice with multicolored intestines to look at the kinds of cells that form intestinal adenomas, a precursor to intestinal cancer.

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.