AACR StoriesThe Faces & Voices Behind the Science
A career development grant from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) helped Yale cancer scientist Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, MSC, PhD, earn two major, multi-year federal grants to further develop her research.
Kevan M. Shokat,PhD, shifted the paradigm of targeted cancer therapy by drugging an “undruggable” protein and paving the way for future advances.
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Research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting highlights the great potential of liquid biopsy to benefit patients across the continuum of cancer care.
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“It worked better than our wildest dreams,” Dr. Luis Diaz said of a therapeutic approach that uses a tumor biomarker to identify patients likely to respond to immunotherapy.
Learn MoreBoth of Dr. Patricia LoRusso’s parents died of cancer when she was a teenager, inspiring her to become an oncologist and focus on developing new treatments for people with cancer.
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