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The Wait is Over - The ATRF is Operational

Standing in front of the visitors’ entrance at the Advanced Technology Research Facility are Craig Reynolds, NCI associate director (left), and Dave Heimbrook, SAIC-Frederick chief executive officer.

Just three years after ground was broken, the ATRF opened its doors in June to sophisticated research laboratories that support the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL).

The new facility represents “a consolidated source of state-of-the-art technologies and associated expertise made available to researchers both inside and outside of the NCI...”

Read about the new facility in the special ATRF edition of The Poster

Selected Platinum Publications

Science

Naik S, Bouladoux N, Wilhelm C, Molloy MJ, Salcedo R, Kastenmuller W, Deming C, Quinones M, Koo L, Conlan S, Spencer S, Hall JA, Dzutsev A, Kong H, Campbell DJ, Trinchieri G, Segre JA, Belkaid Y. Compartmentalized Control of Skin Immunity by Resident Commensals. Science 337(6098):1115-1119, 2012.

Nature Immunology

Pobezinsky LA, Angelov GS, Tai XG, Jeurling S, Van Laethem F, Feigenbaum L, Park JH, Singer A. Clonal deletion and the fate of autoreactive thymocytes that survive negative selection. Nat Immunol 13(6):569-+, 2012.

Nature

Archin NM, Liberty AL, Kashuba AD, Choudhary SK, Kuruc JD, Crooks AM, Parker DC, Anderson EM, Kearney MF, Strain MC, Richman DD, Hudgens MG, Bosch RJ, Coffin JM, Eron JJ, Hazuda DJ, Margolis DM. Administration of vorinostat disrupts HIV-1 latency in patients on antiretroviral therapy. Nature 487(7408):482-U1650, 2012.

Overview of Research at the NCI-Frederick

NCI-Frederick has about 3,000 government and contractor employees with a wide range of expertise in basic, translational, and preclinical research and development in cancer and AIDS.

Read about some of our recent research advances.

 

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