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BRCA Exchange: Data Sharing for the Benefit of Science and Medicine
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...
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First Faculty Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz to focus on the future
UCSC | May 10, 2019 | Scott Rappaport What role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and beyond—play in research on campus? That’s the key question that will be discussed in Ethics and the Far Future, the first UC Santa Cruz Faculty Ethics Bowl, set...
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Jenny Reardon participates in Vatican workshop on personalized medicine
UCSC.edu | Jennifer McNulty | May 3, 2019 Jenny Reardon, a leading voice in the field of genomics, was one of 15 participants invited to attend a workshop on personalized medicine hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The workshop, "The Revolution of...
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Colligan Presidential Chair In Pediatric Genomics Reception and Investiture Ceremony
- Schedule:
4–5 p.m. Reception
5–6 p.m. Ceremony - Location: UC Santa Cruz University Center, Bhojwani Dining Room
Light refreshments will be served.
Complimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Continuous shuttle service will be available from the Barn Theater parking lot to the University Center.Kindly register by February 11, 2019.
The Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics has an initial focus to advance efforts to share genomic data to defeat childhood cancer. Olena Morozova Vaske, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology has received the first appointment to the chair.
“The Genomics Institute has been coming up with approaches to treating pediatric cancer that have never been tried before.”
– John “Bud” and Rebecca Colligan, who established the Colligan Presidential Chair