THE DR. RALPH AND MARIAN FALK MEDICAL RESEARCH TRUST awarded $485,000 to research teams from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to study the effects of key genetic mutations in uveal melanoma. There are no FDA-approved therapies for metastatic UM and patient survival is poor. Julio Aguirre-Ghiso,...
Leadership is changing at The Wistar Institute and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute in the months to come—but the leaders of the two institutions say that this will have little if any effect on the clinical-research collaboration that they have spent the past 15years building (The Cancer Letter, July 12, 2019).
