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Leukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer

September 20, 2019

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego researchers describe new use of leukemia drug, nilotinib, to treat subtype of medulloblastoma, a deadly pediatric brain cancer.

UC San Diego Receives Funding from Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative

September 5, 2019

The San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at University of California San Diego has been awarded planning grants to help the federal government achieve its goal of reducing the number of new HIV infections in the United States by 90 percent by 2030.

FAK Protein Linked to Chemotherapy Resistance in Ovarian Cancer

September 3, 2019

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study links changes in the gene for the protein focal adhesion kinase, or FAK, to ovarian cancer’s ability to survive chemotherapy.

UC San Diego Researchers Convert Pro-Tumor Macrophages into Cancer Killers

August 21, 2019

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a new therapeutic approach in mouse models that halts drug resistance and cancer progression by using an antibody that induces the immune system via macrophages to seek and kill cancer cells.

UC San Diego Receives $9 Million in Grants to Pinpoint Cellular Cause of Type 1 Diabetes

August 13, 2019

UC San Diego School of Medicine has been awarded $9 million to fund research projects using human pluripotent stem cells, CRISPR and human organoids to dissect beta cell defects and create a human cell model of type 1 diabetes aimed at identifying the cellular actions leading to disease onset.

Men Taking Medications for Enlarged Prostate Face Delays in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

May 6, 2019

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that men treated with medications for benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate) experienced a two-year delay in diagnosis of their prostate cancer and were twice as likely to have advanced disease upon diagnosis.

Personalizing Precision Medicine with Combination Therapies Improves Outcomes in Cancer

April 22, 2019

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that treating patients with personalized precision medicine that combined therapies to target multiple alterations improved outcomes in patients with therapy resistant cancers.

UC San Diego Health Treats 1st Cancer Patient with Stem-Cell Derived Natural Killer Cells

April 1, 2019

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health treats the first patient treated for cancer with a human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapy called FT500. Dan Kaufman collaborated with Fate Therapeutics to bring the iPSC-derived natural killer cell cancer immunotherapy to patients.

Preclinical Data Shows Combination Immunotherapy Could Stop Liver Cancer Growth

March 13, 2019

New preclinical data from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center offers proof-of-principle for a combination immunotherapy that suppresses tumor growth in the liver. Current therapies for liver cancer are largely ineffective, resulting in poor outcomes.

UC San Diego Health Expands Leading-Edge Cancer Care in Hillcrest

February 5, 2019

To make it easier for patients to receive world-class cancer care, UC San Diego Health has added a new multidisciplinary cancer clinic in Hillcrest and expanded its infusion center for both oncology patients and others in need of infusion services.
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