Articles Tagged ‘genetics’

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Harold Varmus Speaks at National Press Club

October 4, 2012, 4:28PM

National Cancer Institute Director Harold Varmus, M.D., was a guest of the Morning Newsmaker Program of the National Press Club on Sept. 25, 2012. His presentation was titled “What Impedes Cancer Research?”

Mackall discusses the promises and challenges of pediatric cancer research

September 26, 2012, 9:40AM

Crystal Mackall, M.D., from the Pediatric Oncology Branch in NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, discusses research into pediatric cancers: how they differ from adult cancers, unique challenges, and the importance or pursuing these rarer malignancies.

Matthew Meyerson discusses TCGA lung squamous cell cancer study

September 10, 2012, 9:39AM

Color head shot of Matthew Meyerson, TCGA investigator, wearing glasses.

Matthew Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pathology from the Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Mass., and associate professor of pathology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, led the writing committee for The Cancer Genome Atlas project on lung squamous cell cancer. He recently discussed his perspective on the findings.

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