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NCI Pediatric MATCH Trial Interim Data Shows 24 Percent of Patients Eligible for Targeted Therapy
May 16, 2019 | Christie Rizk | GenomeWeb NEW YORK – An interim analysis of the National Cancer Institute-Children's Oncology Group (NCI-COG) Pediatric Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) study — a precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer — has...
Alumni Weekend 2019: Slugs in the mist
Cool, cloudy weather can’t stop warm reunions and festival vibes at annual Alumni Weekend bash UCSC | Dan White | April 30, 2019 It’s a well-known fact that cool weather and fog bring out the banana slugs in droves. That was certainly the case during UC Santa Cruz’s...
Biologist Olena Vaske wins major grant from American Association for Cancer Research
The 2019 AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research will support Vaske's research on pediatric cancer genomics UCSC.edu | April 25, 2019 | Tim Stephens The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has awarded a prestigious 2019 NextGen Grant for...
Combined Analysis of DNA, RNA Gaining Popularity in Pediatric Cancer Research
| Apr 02, 2019 | Christie Rizk | ATLANTA (GenomeWeb) | Combining DNA and RNA sequencing data has proven to be beneficial for researchers seeking to understand more about the biology of adult cancers. Just as the advent of genomics testing helped to make cancer care...
Data sharing for pediatric cancers
Science Magazine | March 15, 2019 | Olena Morozova Vaske and David Haussler Last month, in a conference call held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health (NIH), it was revealed that a large focus of President Trump's...