Scott Lippman to Launch NCI’s PreCancer Genome Atlas
November 29, 2021
Scott Lippman, MD, will lead the PreCancer Genome Atlas, an NCI-sponsored effort to map premalignant lesions and how they evolve into invasive cancers.
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World-Renowned Surgeon Named New Director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health
January 8, 2024
Diana M. Simeone, MD, has been named the new director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
UC San Diego-Human Longevity Inc. Agreement Seeks to Accelerate Medical Science
March 4, 2014
The new collaborative research agreement between Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) and the University of California, San Diego, announced today, represents a significant and necessary step in efforts to research and translate the potential of the human genome into novel and real treatments and therapies able to change and improve the…
UC San Diego Health System Receives National Achievement Award for Cancer Program
May 1, 2013
UC San Diego Health System is a recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer. Seventy-nine cancer care programs—three in California—received this national award based on excellence in providing quality care to cancer patients.
New Imaging Agent Enables Better Cancer Detection, More Accurate Staging
March 20, 2013
…dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent in detecting and mapping cancers that have reached the lymph nodes. The radioactive dye called Technetium Tc-99m tilmanocept, successfully identified cancerous lymph nodes and did a better job of marking cancers than the current standard…
$2.1 Million Gift Launches Comprehensive Breast Cancer Database
October 25, 2021
Philanthropists Richard and Carol Dean Hertzberg have committed $2.1 million to develop and maintain the Dean-Hertzberg Breast Cancer Database System Initiative at UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center to support the work of Anne Wallace, MD and her collaborators at Moores Cancer Center.
Women Needed to Contribute to WISDOM for Breast Cancer Screening
November 6, 2017
…University of California medical centers, including Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, have joined together to recruit 100,000 women in California to be part of WISDOM: a clinical trial to uncover whether annual mammograms are the best way to screen for breast cancer, or whether a more personalized…
UC San Diego Sends Blood Stem Cells to Space
December 21, 2021
Researchers at the University of California San Diego launched blood stem cells into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study stress-induced aging and how stem cells and their progeny transform into pre-cancer and cancer stem cells associated with leukemia and other blood cancers.
Study Uses Precision Medicine to Speed Drug Testing for Pancreatic Cancer
April 15, 2021
Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is among the few clinical trial sites in the U.S. for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) newly created Precision Promise, the first large-scale precision medicine trial designed to transform outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer.
New Technology Enables Shorter Radiation Treatment Time for Patients
October 3, 2017
Patients at UC San Diego Health in need of radiation therapy now have access to the next generation of radiation treatment technology. The new radiotherapy system significantly reduces treatment times with improved accuracy.
