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Oncotarget Editor-in-Chief Wafik S. El-Deiry chairs 2025 WIN Symposium in collaboration with APM in Philadelphia

Impact Journals LLC
Business Announcement

BUFFALO, NY - October 1, 2025 – Oncotarget is proud to announce that its Editor-in-Chief, Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, will chair the WIN Symposium as the Oncology Track of the Advancing Precision Medicine (APM) Annual Conference held October 3–4, 2025, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

Why cancer immunotherapy fails: Ohio State researchers link it to protein quality control collapse

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In what experts are calling a paradigm-shifting landmark study, scientists from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) report key findings about the underlying mechanisms of immune system stress response to protein misfolding, launching a new approach to cancer immunotherapy treatment targeting the protein production cycle.

Journal: Nature

AAMC honors Keck School of Medicine of USC with the Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement

Keck School of Medicine of USC
Grant and Award Announcement

The Keck School of Medicine of USC has been recognized for its commitment to partnering with its neighbors in Los Angeles to identify and address their critical needs. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has chosen the Keck School of Medicine for this year’s prestigious Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. The Keck School of Medicine of USC has a long-standing tradition of prioritizing community as a core pillar of its mission, alongside education, research, and patient care. This commitment is reflected in a broad array of initiatives aimed at supporting residents near the Health Sciences and University Park campuses, as well as various neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles. The school’s programs encompass everything from health and wellness education to outreach and inclusion for cutting-edge clinical trials to scalable, evidence-based programs that address the biggest health challenges facing local communities.

Direct-mail HPV self-test kits boost screening rates and are cost-effective, study finds

Kaiser Permanente
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new Kaiser Permanente study finds that mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling kits to patients is an effective and affordable strategy for increasing cervical cancer screening completion rates across different patient groups, including those who are up-to-date, overdue, and have an unknown screening history.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Hot air drying largely preserves nutritional composition of radish microgreens

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cruciferous vegetables like radish, broccoli and kale offer significant health benefits, especially when they are consumed as microgreens, or as young seedlings harvested early. The little plants contain nutrients such as vitamins; minerals; bioactive antioxidants, like polyphenols; and glucosinolates, which have cancer-fighting potential. But microgreens are highly perishable and lose nutritional value quickly. In an effort to boost the impact and accessibility of microgreens, a team of researchers at Penn State conducted a study of how hot air drying — a cheap and relatively easy preservation technique — affects the availability of key nutrients and plant compounds that benefit health.

Journal: Journal of Food Science
Funder: Open Philanthropy Project, Department of Agriculture

California court ruling endangers public health by failing to require processed meat on Prop 65 list of carcinogens

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Business Announcement

In a major blow to public health, the Superior Court of California has ruled that the State of California may ignore the dangers of processed meat, a product that the World Health Organization has classified as “‘carcinogenic to humans’ (Group 1) on the basis of sufficient evidence for colorectal cancer.”

To study treatment resistance in high-grade serous ovarian cancer, MSK researchers develop new approach

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Memorial Sloan Kettering research team aims to find new ways to stop the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer — high-grade serous ovarian cancer — from recurring with the help of a method they developed for tracking the evolution of treatment resistant cells in ovarian cancer using blood tests.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research U.K. Cancer Grand Challenges Program

Genetic “Trojan horse” selectively kills cancer cells linked to Kaposi’s sarcoma

University of California - Davis Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cancer center researchers developed a safer, more targeted gene therapy to kill cancer cells linked to a common herpesvirus — potentially transforming treatment.

Journal: Molecular Therapy Oncology

Carnegie Mellon secures ARPA-H award to revolutionize early cancer detection with at-home technology

College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Grant and Award Announcement

A Multi-Party Team represented by Carnegie Mellon University researchers and private industry partners has secured an award of up to $26.7 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Platform Optimizing SynBio for Early Intervention and Detection in Oncology (POSEIDON) program to usher in a new era of proactive cancer screening, offering an at-home solution to detect over 30 Stage 1 solid tumor cancers from a simple urine sample.

Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Immunologist Chrysothemis Brown named a 2025 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Chrysothemis Brown, whose research has been shedding light on the development of the early life immune system and its relationship to autoimmunity, allergy, inflammation and cancer, was among 30 early career scientists nationwide selected for the 2025 class of scholars.

Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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