April 29, 2021
…to the development of cancer in sea lions. Reporting on this issue by the Los Angeles Times noted that shipping logs from a disposal company supporting Montrose Chemical Corp. of California, a DDT-producing company, show that 2,000 barrels of DDT-laced sludge could have potentially been dumped each month from 1947…
April 16, 2020
…family member’s battle with cancer, the company develops virtual reality software for scientists and experts in nanoengineering and nanomedicine. Currently, researchers as near as Los Angeles and as far away as Australia are gathering in Nanome’s virtual rooms to study the novel coronavirus in the hopes of developing a treatment.…
October 23, 2014
…is linked to cervical cancer. In 2012, he founded Hera Therapeutics (his fourth biotech startup after Vical, Triangle Pharmaceuticals and Chimerix) to develop a topical agent to treat HPV. He hopes to launch its phase 1 clinical trial in about a year. “I should have retired 10 years ago, but…
February 18, 2021
…Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012, and Sally Ride Science found a new home at UC San Diego in 2015. Extension’s Dr. Edward Abeyta, associate dean for Education and Community Outreach, oversees Sally Ride Science programs, and O’Shaughnessy serves as executive director. "We’re honored that UC San Diego continues…
May 1, 2023
UC San Diego is a hub for rare disease research. Although each rare disease impacts a small number of people, the research findings sometimes apply to more prevalent conditions.
January 31, 2023
The evolution of clinical trials is accelerating, driven by emerging technologies, social imperatives and the next public health crisis.
May 18, 2017
…& Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute, the Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research and a professor of medicine. In 2009, he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his influential work in developing imatinib (commonly known as Gleevec), used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Prior to the drug’s development,…
February 14, 2011
…the radiation dosage for cancer treatment. Students are currently working on a project for fish farming in rural Cameroon in partnership with a non-governmental organization that operates in Africa. Industry and government sponsors have included HP, Intel, Qualcomm, Nokia, Sony, SPAWAR, the U.S. Navy, and numerous biotech companies and startups.…
February 18, 2021
…Sally’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2012. She played tennis against Billie Jean King. Billie Jean King played Sally, then an undergraduate at Stanford, in a tennis mixed doubles exhibition in 1972. The male players were Dick Peters and Dennis Van der Meer. Photo courtesy of Molly Tyson. While attending…
June 1, 2017
…and a Ph.D. in cancer biology from Stanford University Medical School Biochemistry Department and Microbiology and Immunology Department. Rubins conducted her undergraduate research on HIV-1 integration in the Infectious Diseases Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Prior to joining NASA, she worked at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical…
