The study is to be directed by Tobias Sjöblom, associate professor of
tumor biology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Several research teams will examine the samples using different analytical methods in order to get an overall picture,» says Tobias Sjöblom, associate professor of
tumor biology at Uppsala University and director of the study.
Not exact matches
«You can look
at it in terms of
tumor biology — our current strategy is to treat and then as long as the
tumor responds to any degree, to watch for progression without paying much attention to depth of response.
Mathew Garnett, a cancer biologist
at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, says that HeLa cells could prove useful for studying aspects of the
biology of cervical
tumors, such as their response to cancer drugs.
«We found that the same machinery that makes these
tumors so aggressive also makes them vulnerable to nutrient deprivation,» said senior study author Jen - Tsan Ashley Chi, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular
biology and microbiology
at Duke University School of Medicine.
Sequencing the whole genome of a prostate
tumor, says co-author Levi Garraway, a physician and biologist
at Harvard Medical School in Boston, allowed the researchers to see «
biology that would have been invisible with any other method.»
-- In silico basic and systems
biology: We develop innovative approaches to reverse engineer biological networks from omics data, model
tumor progression
at the genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic level, automatically annotate new proteins and functional elements through integration of complex and heterogeneous data, including data obtained from high - throughput sequencing or time - lapse video - microscopy.
The conference aims
at bringing together international experts from different fields of cancer research to present and discuss new therapeutic approaches regarding different
tumor entities as well as new findings in the field of
tumor biology seeking to incorporate innovative platforms into cancer research.
According to Sabatini, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of
biology at MIT, this pathway is hyperactive in an estimated 50 - 80 % of cancers, driving
tumor cell growth and proliferation.
In my own lab here
at Indiana University School of Medicine, I am bringing some of those chemical
biology techniques to bear on problems in eye disease and we continue to work on
tumors of the eye, but we also developed a major focus on neovascular eye diseases, including wet, age - related macular degeneration (AMD).
«Visualizing how cancer cells interact with a
tumor microenvironment that accurately reflects the complex
biology of ovarian cancer should help us understand the mechanisms underlying metastatic progression as well as identify new therapeutics that can inhibit this process,» said clinical gynecologic oncologist Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology
at the University of Chicago.
I joined the
tumor biology team in the summer of 2015 after 2 years spent
at the Duke Cancer Institute (USA) and 2 years
at Sanofi Pasteur (USA and Canada).
Mike Nolan, assistant professor of radiation oncology and
biology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine and head of the Veterinary Hospital's radiation oncology service, found that Dexter had an advanced stage nasal
tumor.