A post-doctoral fellow at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Australia, Ashleigh Poh, PhD, received one of the gastric cancer research fellowships given in 2018. She set out to investigate the role of hematopoietic Cell Kinase (HCK) in gastric cancer. Dr. Poh shared how her AACR fellowship made an impact on her research and career.
October is breast cancer awareness month. Researchers supported by the partnership between the AACR and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation have made progress in the understanding and treatment of breast cancer on multiple fronts.
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Awards for Translational Breast Cancer Research support innovative breast cancer-focused research. 2018 recipient Camila dos Santos, PhD, shared how her career development award made an impact on her research and career.
2020 AACR-AstraZeneca Immuno-Oncology Fellow, Maria Casanova-Acebes, PhD, now current head of the Cancer Immunity Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), reported in Nature their findings on how tissue-resident macrophages may influence lung cancer development.
The AACR-Bayer START grant gives early career investigators the unique opportunity to gain experience not only in academic but also in industry settings. Mark Labrecque, PhD, speaks on the impact of this grant on his career and research.
Protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 22 (PTPN22) has been primarily studied in the context of autoimmune diseases. 2019 AACR-InCyte Immuno-oncology Fellow Won Jin Ho, MD, showed how PTPN22 inhibition retards tumor growth in a T-cell- and macrophage-dependent manner.
More than half of melanomas contain extra copies of the sirtuin 5 gene. Two AACR-Bayer Innovation and Discovery grant recipients and an AACR NextGen Grant recipient, along with their colleagues, demonstrated that sirtuin 5 is required for melanoma cell proliferation and survival.
The partnership of the AACR with QuadW reflects the commitment of both organizations to make a difference in the lives of sarcoma patients by supporting the next generation of cancer researchers who are focused on sarcoma research.
It has long been suggested that consumption of red meat increases the risk of colon cancer. Scientists have now demonstrated a possible mechanistic link between the two in human tumors
A team of investigators led by 2015 KureIt-AACR Grantee Dr. Eliezer Van Allen and Dr. Toni Choueiri probed the changes in the tumor and immune system in advanced renal cell carcinoma patients who received immune check point blockade (ICB).