Individuals with NF1 have an increased risk of developing specific types of benign tumors and cancers including some brain tumors, a rare childhood leukemia and tumors that grow along the nerves and can progress to become sarcomas.
The number of children with these genetic diseases is relatively small, so this sort of structure allows us to get the trials done efficiently and expediently. Lung cancer has an image problem, and Nasser Hanna, MD , wants to change that. Nearly everyone in America could tell you what the pink ribbon stands for when it pops up on store displays and product packaging. But how many people know that the white ribbon represents ending the stigma surrounding the No.
He is spearheading an awareness and advocacy initiative called End Lung Cancer Now. However, Nasser says that with improvement in three key areas, most lung cancers could be prevented or successfully treated—now. As religious and cultural holidays approach, providers can be mindful about offering compassionate care to patients.
Such care focuses on a patient's well-being by connecting them to spiritual traditions, rituals and practices as they experience a health crisis. Learn more in the Spirit of Medicine blog post. The center is focused on multiple myeloma and triple negative breast cancer. Through this initiative, the NIH is holding a series of listening sessions beginning this month to learn from external stakeholders about the issues and challenges in advancing racial and ethnic equity in biomedical research.
See the schedule and register. A strong believer in the collaborative pursuit of scientific principles and experiments, Dr. Broxmeyer would become the first director of the Walther Oncology Center, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and a pillar for the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center—mentoring countless colleagues along the way.
Indiana University President Pamela Whitten announced this week that IU will recognize Juneteenth as an official university holiday beginning in It will be a paid university holiday for IU faculty and staff. Focused on providing unity and solidarity for student populations underrepresented in medicine, the Cross Cultural Student Success Retreat will be held from 10 am pm, Saturday, January 8, and is open to all.
The retreat will include tailored programming to meet the needs of first, second and third-year students. This event provides an opportunity for students to connect with each other, develop skills and strengthen relationships with support systems at IU School of Medicine. Learn more and register. The event will be presented by Hedy S.
The seminar will catalyze critical thinking on the relevance of the Holocaust for contemporary medicine and help health care trainees and professionals reflect on their core values in the service of humanistic and ethically responsible patient care. Register for the virtual seminar.
The one-year fellowship allows medical students to be immersed in research support for one year of full-time mentored training. Each company is different in terms of their needs, risk tolerance, standards and policies. For these clients, inScope offers various levels of experts available for short to long-term assignments.
There are typically three roles within the project management disciplines; Project Coordinator, Project Manager and Program Manager.
Each has specific roles to play and different benefits come from outsourcing each role. The next generation of drugs that Bellail, Hao and the team are working to identify are small molecule degraders that target the protein degradation pathway for the destruction of cancerous proteins and shutdown of cancer growth. For more on the findings, visit the Newsroom. The Indiana Biobank has data generated from samples that are available for researchers. Specifically, the bank has whole exome sequencing WES from more than 5, subjects.
All samples are linked to the electronic medical record, and de-identified clinical data can be paired with the analyses data. Email the Indiana Biobank team. Becoming an advocate for change is not a passive act. The MPRINT Hub serves as a national resource for expertise in maternal and pediatric therapeutics to conduct and foster therapeutics-focused research in obstetrics, lactation and pediatrics while enhancing inclusion of people with disabilities.
Learn more about the opportunity and apply. Submission deadline is November While Black women develop breast cancer at a lower rate compared to women of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, the cancer often occurs at a younger age and is more aggressive.
For years, the medical community thought these disparities could be solely attributed to socioeconomic factors, but current research tells a much more complex story. Find out more and register.
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