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PRESS RELEASE: The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Is Now Accepting Applications for its 2025 Prize for Rising Stars in Cancer Research

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

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PRESS RELEASE: Mount Sinai Receives $4.6 Million From The Pershing Square Foundation to Support Women’s Health Research and Careers for Women in Science

New York, NY – October 26, 2023 (Mount Sinai) –The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $4.6 million gift from The Pershing Square Foundation to support women’s health research and advance careers for female scientists. Part of an original nearly $21 million gift that expanded a COVID-19 testing program for New York City … Continued

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HIV drug shows promise against metastatic cancer

/ 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

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