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Data sharing will be a major thrust of Trump’s $500 million childhood cancer plan
Feb 27, 2019Jocelyn Kaiser President Donald Trump’s proposal in his State of the Union address earlier this month to spend $500 million over 10 years on pediatric cancer research will begin in 2020 with a focus on sharing patients’ data, federal officials say. That...
Gene Expression Outlier Analysis Aims to ID New Druggable Targets for Pediatric Cancers
Feb 28, 2019 Christie Rizk NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Next-generation sequencing technology as applied to various cancers has led to the discovery of several DNA mutations thought to be responsible in some way for the development or proliferation of those cancers. This,...
Investiture ceremony honors Dr. Vaske, inaugural holder of the Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics
February 19, 2019 Investiture is a formal ceremony designed to publicly recognize both faculty members who are appointed to named professorships and the generous donors who made these appointments possible. Recently, we had the opportunity to celebrate our co-founder...
Biologist Olena Morozova Vaske appointed to endowed chair in pediatric genomics
Investiture ceremony honors Vaske as the inaugural holder of the Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics Feb. 21, 2019 | Tim Stephens Olena Morozova Vaske, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, was honored...
Synovial Sarcoma and Treehouse
The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative is working to change the story for childhood cancer patients by leveraging genomic data and computational approaches to identify less toxic and more effective treatments. We do this by analyzing a child’s cancer data against...