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9-Oct-2025

AIM-HI Accelerator Fund announces winners of the 2025 Venture Competition

AIM-HI Accelerator Fund
Grant and Award Announcement

In its mission to accelerate transformative cancer innovations and drive cures forward, the AIM-HI Accelerator Fund is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 AIM-HI Venture Competition: ResNovas Therapeutics, co-founded by Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., Michelle Arkin, Ph.D., CTO Ian Churcher, Ph.D., and CEO Gabriele Sulli, Ph.D.; and Chiara Biosciences, co-founded by National Academy of Inventors Fellow Francis Barany, Ph.D. and CEO Kirsten Flowers, MBA.

9-Oct-2025

It’s never too late for those with cancer to quit smoking

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A smoking cessation program developed by WashU Medicine researchers and deployed at Siteman Cancer Center prolongs life for cancer patients, according to a new study. Regardless of their type of cancer or how advanced it was, cancer patients lived nearly a year longer when they quit smoking compared to patients who continued smoking.

Journal: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Siteman Investment Program

9-Oct-2025

New JNCCN study confirms it’s ‘never too late’ to see survival benefits from quitting smoking—even with late-stage cancer

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that people with cancer who quit smoking had a much lower risk of dying within two years compared to those who kept smoking. The survival benefit was seen across all cancer types and stages, including stages III and IV.

Journal: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

8-Oct-2025

Nurses step up to tackle Australia’s skin cancer crisis

University of South Australia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Australia needs to be innovative when it comes to skin cancer detection by embracing a nurse-led model that could save thousands of lives in the long run, according to a new paper.

Journal: Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia

8-Oct-2025

Health & Medical Environment & Energy Society & Lifestyle Technology & Space Rural & Agriculture Business & Politics More Tiny surface shapes steer cancer cells, paving the way for better lab tests and safer implants

Griffith University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers develop method to guide how MDA-MB-231 cancer cells – an invasive breast cancer cell – stuck, spread, and multiplied by tweaking the curves and chemistry of microscopic 're-entrant' structures.

Journal: Advanced Materials Interfaces

8-Oct-2025

Prostate testing may not target those most likely to benefit, warn experts

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Current prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing “may not effectively target testing to those most likely to benefit, raising concerns about overtesting” warn researchers from the University of Oxford in a study of over 10 million men across England published by The BMJ today.

Journal: The BMJ
Funder: Cancer Research UK

8-Oct-2025

Unlocking the blueprint for a powerful plant-based drug

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at UBC Okanagan have uncovered how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare natural compound that may help fight cancer.

Journal: The Plant Cell

8-Oct-2025

Kennesaw State professor receives grant to study cancer origins

Kennesaw State University
Grant and Award Announcement

The Kennesaw State University assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology recently earned a $720,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to seek clues about the hormonal control of cancer.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

8-Oct-2025

Mayo Clinic researchers discover ‘traffic controller’ protein that protects DNA, and may help kill cancer cells

Mayo Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division — a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to a study published in Nature.

Journal: Nature

8-Oct-2025

Cancer researchers shape new strategies for immunotherapy

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By integrating key advances from multiple laboratories and disciplines, researchers provide a framework for understanding how nanomedicine can transform cancer immunotherapy, a step toward next-generation patient treatments.

Journal: Nature Cancer