University of Illinois Cancer Center investigators won a $709,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.
The Lung Cancer Research Foundation announced funding opportunities to advance lung cancer research, including two new Team Science awards and an Early Career Investigator award.
A mother’s mitochondria determines if lactation is protective or not against breast cancer—and points to a possible intervention to increase the benefit to more women, according to a pre-clinical study conducted by researchers from The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Unless you were sleeping under a rock, you are aware of the coordinated attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities by Israel and the United States.
The intersection of diabetes, obesity and cancer represents an important and underappreciated challenge in medicine. Apart from smoking, overweight is now the leading modifiable risk factor for cancer. With the global epidemic of overweight and diabetes driving cancer incidence across multiple organ sites, understanding the metabolic underpinnings of this relationship has never been more critical.
Over 20 scientists whose grants have been canceled by the Trump administration presented posters on their now-terminated work at “The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.”
Don’t try to convince Col. Susan Fondy that lymphedema doesn’t merit interest from medical researchers.
We recently had the privilege of contributing to a CBS Sunday Morning story on the ongoing crisis in the federal support for research in general and cancer research in particular.
The landscape of cancer care in America faces critical challenges: geographic disparities in access, socioeconomic barriers to advanced treatments and the increasing complexity of precision medicine that outpaces individual providers’ ability to stay current. At City of Hope, we are addressing these systemic issues through a bold expansion that brings world-class cancer care and research closer to where patients live.
Besim Ogretmen was named assistant vice president for research in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the Medical University of South Carolina.
