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Geisinger Health System Wins $3.6M NIH Grant to Study Genetics of Cancer Risk
The health system will partner with the NCI to look for new cancer risk variants in a large population biobank, in the hopes of improving screening and care.
NCI Director Sharpless Outlines Ideas to Aggressively Lower Cancer Deaths
At the AACR Annual Meeting, Sharpless said NCI should focus on improving early screening, access to trials, and development of advanced drugs to realize President Biden's goal of eradicating cancer.
Wake Forest Organoid Research Center Receives $2.5M NCI Grant
Researchers will use the grant to develop a drug testing platform using patient-derived tumor organoids to predict treatment outcomes for patients.
In a keynote to the AMIA Informatics Summit, the NCI director said precision oncology has created new challenges in data analysis and management.
NCI Grants $1.9M to Roswell Park to Study Molecular Race-Based Breast Cancer Disparities
The grant will fund an investigation into long noncoding RNA and the role it plays in differing prognoses between Black and white breast cancer patients.