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PRESS RELEASE: The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Is Now Accepting Applications for its 2024 Prize for Rising Leaders in Cancer Research

September 25th, 2023

THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ITS 2024 PRIZE FOR RISING LEADERS IN CANCER RESEARCH NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 (The Pershing Square Foundation, Business Wire) — The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance (PSSCRA) today announced the opening of applications for the 2024 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary; Annual $5.25M Pershing Square Sohn Prize Awarded to Seven Innovators

May 16th, 2023

Breaking New Ground With Blood Cancers Through the Lens of Splicing Factor Mutations

March 21st, 2023 / ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT. SINAI

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai – Recent work with induced pluripotent stem cells has helped uncover complex mechanisms in myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia for the first time. This discovery could pave the way for improving current treatments, or even for finding new ones. A decade ago, somatic mutations—those that occur after … Continued

Yale scientist’s ‘powerful,’ new gene editing technique promises to speed research

February 23rd, 2023

CT Insider — New Haven, CT (February 21, 2023) A new gene editing technique developed by scientists from Yale University offers a powerful new tool to interrogate how genes work across a swath of biological disciplines, from cancer research to immunology. According to a study published in Nature Biotechnology, the technique called “CLASH” allows potentially thousands … Continued

Colorectal cancer tumors both helped and hindered by T cells

July 25th, 2022 / EUREKALERT / THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

Colorectal tumors are swarming with white blood cells, but whether these cells help or hinder the cancer is hotly debated. While some studies have shown that white blood cells heroically restrict tumor growth and combat colorectal cancer, equally compelling evidence casts the white blood cells as malignant co-conspirators—bolstering the tumor and helping it spread. Now, … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE AWARDS $4.2M TO SEVEN EMERGING TRAILBLAZERS IN CANCER RESEARCH

June 7th, 2022 / The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance

THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE AWARDS $4.2M TO SEVEN EMERGING TRAILBLAZERS IN CANCER RESEARCH The Pershing Square Sohn Prize Has Committed More Than $35 Million to 59 Scientists in the Greater New York Area to Support Bold Cancer Research NEW YORK, JUNE 7, 2022 (Business Wire) – The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research … Continued

Scientists Discover Gene Mutation That Signals Aggressive Melanoma

April 7th, 2022 / MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM

Newswise — New York, NY (April 6, 2022)— Mutation of a gene called ARID2 plays a role in increasing the chance that melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, will turn dangerously metastatic, Mount Sinai researchers report. The findings suggest that patients whose melanoma tumors have an ARID2 mutation may have a more aggressive cancer and may need to be treated … Continued

HIV drug shows promise against metastatic cancer

April 5th, 2022 / Alice McCarthy, THE HARVARD GAZETTE

A drug widely used in HIV therapy has shown to stop disease progression in 25 percent of patients with fourth-line metastatic colorectal cancer. Findings from the trial, published in Cancer Discovery, raise the possibility of an unexpected promising direction in cancer treatment, not just colorectal cancer. The drug used in the study was lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor. … Continued

Hands, Feet, and Fins: The Connection That Explains Acral Melanoma

March 31st, 2022 / MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING

To understand cancer in humans, researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) are turning to our distant relatives from 425 million years ago: fish. A lot has evolved since then: Fish use their fins to swim, whereas we use our hands to play Wordle. But there remains a deep similarity, explains 2017 Pershing Square Sohn Prize winner Richard … Continued

SKI Scientists Discover a New Twist on an 80-Year-Old Biochemical Pathway

March 17th, 2022 / MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING

Every year, thousands of biochemistry majors and medical students around the world learn to memorize the major biochemical pathways that allow cells to function. How these 10 or so pathways are described in textbooks hasn’t changed much since the early 20th century, when they were first discovered. But with the resurgence of interest in cancer metabolism in … Continued

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