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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Jun-2025 08:10 ET (29-Jun-2025 12:10 GMT/UTC)

Researchers with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health awarded $5 million to study cancer risk among firefighters in Texas

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

The state of Texas awarded UTHealth Houston School of Public Health $5 million over two years for early detection and research, led by principal investigator Jooyeon Hwang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, on cancer risk among firefighters in Texas.

UTA taps AI to help cancer survivors get moving

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington has received a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, known as CPRIT, to tackle the critical issue of low physical activity among cancer survivors.[CJM1] Regular exercise can significantly improve survivors’ quality of life and reduce their risk of death, yet up to 84% don’t get enough to see these benefits.[CJM2]

Nancy A. Speck honored for pioneering research in hematology

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Nancy A. Speck, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2025 recipient of the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize from the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

Gene hunt leads to potential colorectal cancer treatment, Stanley J. Glaser Award

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A physician-scientist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has released a preclinical study highlighting a potential new way to treat colorectal cancer, and has secured a prestigious Stanley J. Glaser Foundation Research Award to continue the research. The findings appear online first in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Journal: Cancer Research

CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $3.4 million to target drug-resistant cancers, raise HPV vaccination rates

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded nearly $3.4 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), to target hard-to-treat cancers with technologies not currently available in the state and boosting vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) that leads to cancer.

Organ sculpting cells may hold clues to how cancer spreads

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed.

Journal: Science Advances

Genetic testing offers a cost-effective tool for early prostate cancer detection

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — June 18, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on May 26, 2025, titled “Integrating molecular diagnostics for early prostate cancer detection.”

Journal: Oncoscience

Major discovery by UT Health San Antonio scientists sheds light on cancer drug resistance

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), along with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, Columbia University and Irving Medical Center, have made an important discovery to date in the study and treatment of BRCA1-deficient cancers and PARP inhibitor resistance.

Journal: Science

Scientists crack micronutrient mystery that could be key to brain health, cancer defense

University of Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of Florida and Trinity College Dublin, has cracked a decades-old mystery in human biology: how our bodies absorb a micronutrient that we rely on for everything from healthy brain function to cancer defense.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Researchers identify key B-cell lymphoma traits linked with greatest benefit from CD19 CAR T cell therapy

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified three subgroups of patients with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) who have different levels of benefit from CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy.

Journal: Cancer Cell

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