The 2020 and 2021 Szent-Györgyi Prize will both be awarded on Saturday, October 30, 2021 The 2020 prize recipient is Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D. for unlocking workings of cancer drugs of natural product origin. The 2021 prize recipients are Tak W. Mak, Ph.D. and Mark M. Davis, Ph.D....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On February 11, weeks into the COVID-19 outbreak, the novel coronavirus was officially called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as most patients showed mild to severe respiratory illness. Doctors shared the same concept, based largely on commonly observed symptoms, that the virus targets...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="33537" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Much like a scorpion uses toxin components to target and kill its prey, the research team at City of Hope are using it to direct T cells to target the cancerous cells. Each year, as the ground begins to thaw, people...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="64507" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Ranking as one of the most popular fruits, strawberries are more than just a sweet treat. Appropriately nicknamed “Queen of Fruits”, these berries are packed with immune-boosting Vitamin C, dietary fiber, and powerful antioxidants that fight free radicals and protect...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2020 CONTACT: National Foundation for Cancer Research Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Program Development E-mail: bgillenwater@nfcr.org / Phone: 301-961-9161 Three Decades of NFCR Basic and Translational Research Funding to Primary Investigator Dr. Yung-Chi Cheng and Project Advances New Systems Biology Paradigm for Cancer Treatment World-First Phase...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Early in February, Dr. Sabra Klein, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, noticed a sex difference in COVID-19 infections based on reports emerging from China. She felt that men might have a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="33450" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The bond between a mother and child is a bond unlike any other. Mothers spend years sacrificing for their children, from sleepless nights to accepting that privacy and free time are foreign concepts to a mother. Nearly every mother, however, will state that...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Note: This is part two of Dr. Michael Wang's series that specifically addresses Brain Cancer Treatment during the Coronavirus Pandemic. You can read part one here. In addition to surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy are the other two major medical procedures to treat brain cancers. Patients...
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