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Be Bold, Be Bald: Join our St. Baldrick’s Shave Event 🍀🍀🍀
Our 3rd Annual St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, is Wednesday, October 24. We’ll be rockin’ the bald to raise money for childhood cancer research, from 1pm-3pm, outside of the Science...
Comparative RNA-Sequencing Analysis Benefits a Pediatric Patient With Relapsed Cancer
Case Report in JCO, Precision Oncology Clinical detection of sequence and structural variants in known cancer genes points to viable treatment options for a minority of children with cancer.1 To increase the number of children who benefit from genomic profiling, gene...
Giving Day
On a chilly February morning in UCSC's Quarry Plaza, we came together to raise awareness and some funds for the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, the pediatric cancer research arm of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. Staff members Ann Durbin and Katrina...
Immunotherapy and Pediatric Cancer
Cells are being created continuously in our bodies. Both good and bad cells. In the past century, many factors such as use of pesticides and other toxins have weakened our immune system. Our immune system is designed to seek out and destroy cancer cells, thus,...
Share The Data: David Haussler Envisions A New Future For Pediatric Cancer
By Leah Rosenbaum February 22, 2018 | David Haussler wore his trademark Hawaiian shirt underneath a blazer last week in San Francisco. Haussler, who played a seminal role in the Human Genome Project, has been a regular at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference*. This...