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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

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

PRESS RELEASE: THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN PRIZE AWARDED TO FIVE EMERGING LEADERS IN CANCER RESEARCH

June 4th, 2024 / THE PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION

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

Pancreatic cancer hijacks a brain-building protein

February 15th, 2024 / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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

DOUBLE HELIX MEDALS DINNER HONORING PSF TRUSTEES RAISES MORE THAN $10 MILLION

November 28th, 2023

New York, NY (CSHL) – On November 15, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) held its 18th annual Double Helix Medals dinner (DHMD) at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. CBS journalist Lesley Stahl returned to emcee the awards dinner, which honored Neri Oxman & William Ackman and 2018 Nobel laureate Jim Allison. … Continued

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

October 26th, 2023

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

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

Cancer Breakthrough: Yale Scientists Discover New Way To Reduce Friendly Fire in Cell Therapy

August 1st, 2023 / SciTech Daily

SciTech Daily –New York, NY (July 31, 2023) — New recent research from Yale has discovered a method to control the self-destructive tendencies of certain killer T cells utilized in cancer therapy. CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor) therapy, a promising form of immunotherapy, involves reprogramming the patient’s T cells to enhance their ability to identify … Continued

Lab-grown mini lungs could accelerate the study of respiratory diseases

June 6th, 2023 / THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

The Rockefeller University – When we’re driving to a new destination, we often turn down the stereo as we follow the directions. What had been music suddenly sounds like noise, and it interferes with our focus. Our understanding of how infectious diseases like COVID affect human lungs has been similarly confounded by noise. Data from … 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