Columbia University — New York, NY (September 30, 2024) — Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural director of the Columbia Initiative for Cell Engineering and Therapy (CICET) and director of the Cancer Cell Therapy Initiative in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “Today’s announcement underscores Columbia’s … Continued
September 23rd, 2024 (The Pershing Square Foundation, Business Wire, New York, NY): The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance (PSSCRA) today announced the opening of applications for the 2025 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize (formerly known as the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research). The prize of $250,000 per year for … Continued
THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN PRIZE AWARDED TO FIVE EMERGING LEADERS IN CANCER RESEARCH The Pershing Square Foundation Has Committed More Than $43 Million to 71 Scientists in the Greater New York Area to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Cancer Research NEW YORK, JUNE 4, 2024 (Business Wire) – The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance today announced … Continued
CSHL (February 14, 2024) — Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of California, Davis have reached a new breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research—eight years in the making. It could help slow the disease’s deadly spread. In 2017, as a postdoc in CSHL’s Tuveson lab, Chang-il Hwang and collaborators from the Vakoc lab uncovered … Continued