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The cancer community will come together for a two-day conference designed to celebrate Black contributions in cancer research and to connect future investigators and collaborators, in order to pave the way for the next generation of Black cancer research professionals.
Black in Cancer, a US/UK-based organization and the Frederick National…
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The National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis appointed the Frederick National Laboratory to build the Integrated Canine Data Commons. The data commons provides a publicly available cloud-based repository of data on spontaneously arising canine cancer to advance research on human cancers by enabling comparative analysis…
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A national effort to understand the molecular basis of numerous cancers by analyzing proteins and genes will benefit from greater diversity in patient samples through a new agreement with the Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically Black medical school in Atlanta.
MSM joins the National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Proteomic Tumor…
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Artificial intelligence has helped researchers uncover potential avenues for better treatment of endometrial cancer, the most common gynecologic malignancy in the developed world and one with a worsening mortality rate, particularly among Blacks and Hispanics.
With the aid of deep learning, a type of AI, a large multi-institutional…
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A multi-site clinical trial is in progress for lentiviral-vector-based CD33 CAR T-cell treatments for pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Six sites were approved for this trial sponsored by the National Marrow Donor Program. NCI’s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) is funding the Biopharmaceutical Development Program to serve as…
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Researchers depend on laboratory animals to advance our understanding of human health and disease. New treatments for cancers, new diagnostic methods, and a better understanding of managing disease all depend on animal models. Those animals depend on caretakers to keep them healthy, in a safe and clean environment.
Recently, the COVID-19…
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NCI-MATCH, one of the largest cancer precision medicine clinical trials to date, closed in 2023 and its follow-on studies will use a similar model to test combinations of treatments, evaluating a patient’s immune system prior to pairing the patient with immunotherapy against their cancer.
The Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH)…
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An international research collaboration including scientists from the Frederick National Laboratory has identified two key drivers of a hereditary kidney cancer and opened new possibilities for therapeutic approaches to a disease whose current treatment is largely surgerical.
The scientists implicated two proteins that work cooperatively to…
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Three scientists from the region presented innovative imaging techniques and discussed how they are leveraging them to advance cancer research and ultimately improve human health at the Biotech Connector seminar on Wednesday, May 17, the second in this year’s series sponsored by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and the…
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Each year, the Frederick National Laboratory offers its scientists an opportunity to compete for funding to conduct the research they view as critical to advance biomedical research but is outside the scope of their daily research activities.
This year, three proposals earned funding through the program, known as the Laboratory Directed…
