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Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Reveals Potential for New Therapies
“We are all very excited about this finding,” says Dr. Ching Lau of UConn Health/JAX and Connecticut Children’s. “The take home message of these findings is that the fusion protein is altering the behavior of the tumor cells by dictating the genes that will be turned on and off. This gives us a better handle on which aberrantly expressed genes to target in developing novel therapeutics against supratentorial ependymoma.”
November 16, 2020 | Mark Wanner, The Jackson Laboratory
UConn Health Recognizes Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November 16, 2020 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Pancreatic Cancer Takes the Lives of Beloved U.S. Icons
Alex Trebek and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg brought awareness to the disease that is the 3rd leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. that has a 5-year survival rate of 10%.
November 12, 2020 | Jennifer Walker
Al Roker Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
November 9, 2020 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
UConn Health Stresses Importance Of Breast Cancer Screening
October 16, 2020 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 15, 2020 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Reveals Rare Disorder
An odd lump on Elizabeth Cowles Johnston’s breast prompted a Friday morning call to her primary care physician Rebecca Andrews at UConn Health. Dr. Andrews quickly fit her in, and upon checking the lump sent her to Dr. Alex Merkulov, Section Head of Women’s Imaging at the Beekley Imaging Center at UConn Health for a […]
October 15, 2020 | Jennifer Walker
MD Anderson Cancer Center Honors Dr. Cato T. Laurencin
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced Dr. Cato T. Laurencin as the recipient of the 2020 Mike Hogg Award and Lecture, the institution’s most prestigious award that is granted to practicing scientists and physicians who have made and continue to make exceptional transformative contributions to the field of biomedical research.
October 13, 2020 | Lauren Woods
UConn Health Researcher Receives Patent for Cancer-fighting Antibody
A UConn Health researcher has been awarded a patent stemming from research into cancer-fighting antibodies.
October 5, 2020 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
UConn Health Researcher Receives Patent for Cancer-fighting Antibody
UConn Health professor of cell biology Kevin Claffey recently received a patent for a novel antibody designed to target an important cancer cell membrane protein.
October 1, 2020 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research