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Postdocs are critical to the success of cancer research

Postdoctoral training is to bench scientists what residency programs are to medical students — a period of mentored apprenticeship to bridge the gap between one’s student years and an independent career.

Expressive Writing

Expressive writing is a way to put thoughts and feelings into words

Spiritually Focused Expressive Writing: March 22 - April 19, 2022; 2 p.m.

This 5-week seminar focuses on addressing spiritual needs through writing, reflection and sharing. In these sessions through writing you may be able to process emotions, express meaning of events, and develop your response.

The best way to treat pancreatic cancer may be starve the cancer cells

A University of Michigan-led study is shedding new light on the way pancreatic cancer cells turn nearby connective tissue cells into co-conspirators in their deadly growth. The findings also suggest a new potential strategy against pancreatic cancer by identifying critical components of metabolic cross talk between cells that might be attacked with new therapies, starving the cancer cells of vital nutrients.

The microRNA, miR181a, may help diagnose and treat ovarian cancer

A microRNA that is normally involved in immune cell differentiation helps to initiate and drive the development of the most prevalent and deadly form of ovarian cancer, research led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University has found.

Cancer health disparities is one of the most pressing public health challenges, new report finds

The new report from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) highlights the impact of cancer health disparities and calls for transformative research, collaboration and committed funding to ensure research-driven advances benefit everyone.

New inhibitor shows promise against challenging lung, colon cancers

A new inhibitor designed to target what’s been called an “undruggable” genetic mutation showed promising activity against advanced cancers with this mutation.

Cancer researchers pivot to fight COVID-19

Rogel Cancer Center members have received grant funding for 10 projects related to COVID-19. Some are using their basic science acumen or public health perspective to better understand the virus and its implications. Others focus on the coronavirus’s impact on the care of people with cancer.

Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19

What is the connection between COVID-19 and cancer? Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., has focused his entire career on cancer, identifying in 2005 a protein that plays a key role in the development of prostate cancer. It turns out it may also factor into how coronaviruses replicate.

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