After people are diagnosed with cancer, their health risk behaviors such as smoking, overeating, and lack of physical activity may affect the likelihood that they will not respond to treatment, have side effects from treatment, may get a new cancer, and are more likely to get heart disease or diabetes. …Continue reading
Studying Telehealth & Cancer Care
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) https://www.cancer.gov will award $23 million to four academic institutions to establish Centers of Excellence to research the role of telehealth in delivering cancer information. …Continue reading
Tracking Organs in Real Time
LifeGift https://www.LifeGift.org, a non-profit organ and tissue donation organization serving 109 Texas counties in southeast, North and West Texas has announced a new partnership to help save more lives through organ donation and transplantation. …Continue reading
Launch of Genetic Sequencing Project
Mount Sinai Health System https://www.mountsinai.org and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program within the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) where enrollment is due to begin in 2022. …Continue reading
Platform to Speed Up Drug Development
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) https://www.chop.edu has helped launch a new computational platform that will harmonize pediatric cancer data to enable researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and advocacy groups accelerate the pace of drug development for pediatric cancer. …Continue reading
KidneyX Launches $10.5M Prize
HHS https://www.hhs.gov and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) https://www.asn-online.org have announced a new prize competition from the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX) seeking to further develop a fully functional bioartificial kidney. …Continue reading
DHA Awards ICF $30M Contract
The Defense Health Agency https://health.mil recently awarded global consulting and digital services provider ICF https://www.icf.com, a $30 million contract to provide research and operational support to help the agency provide their critical military mental health research agenda. …Continue reading