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AI tool predicts responses to cancer therapy using information from each cell of the tumor

With more than 200 types of cancer and every cancer individually unique, ongoing efforts to develop precision oncology treatments remain daunting. In a new study published in the journal Nature Cancer, first author Sanju Sinha, Ph.D., at Sanford...
18-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Debanjan Dhar looks at links among liver cancer, heart health and kidney function

As an associate professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys, Dhar focuses on how lifestyle factors such as high-calorie diets, excessive alcohol consumption and minimal exercise—along with genetic predispositions—can lead to problematic changes in the...
17-Apr-2024 3:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Common HIV treatments may aid Alzheimer’s disease patients

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have now identified promising real-world links between common HIV drugs and a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D., was published in Pharmaceuticals.
16-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Tiny brain bubbles carry complete codes

In findings published in Cell Reports, senior author Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D., and team also discovered that the biological instructions within these vesicles differed significantly in postmortem brain samples donated from patients suffering from...
9-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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What Makes a Pathogen Antibiotic-Resistant?

In a new study, Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers, led by Andrei L. Osterman, Ph.D., combined experimental evolution in a continuous culturing device with whole genome sequencing of evolving cultures to track how two bacterial pathogens acquired...
7-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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With the help of naked mole rats, Xiao Tian seeks to expose and explain the epigenetic drivers of aging

Xiao Tian, Ph.D., who recently joined Sanford Burnham Prebys as an assistant professor in the Degenerative Diseases Program, focuses on epigenomic changes and deterioration that influence age-related diseases.
14-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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A new 3D bioprinted model offers a novel tool to study common liver disease, and perhaps find an effective treatment

Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis or MASH (formerly known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis) is an inflammatory, liver-scarring disease that affects 1.5% to 6.5% of all U.S. adults.
23-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Sanford Burnham Prebys continues unprecedented recruitment of early-career scientists

Continuing its rapid and dramatic recruitment of emerging, top-tier researchers, Sanford Burnham Prebys has hired two more highly regarded early-career scientists: Angela Liou, M.D., a specialist in pediatric oncology and hematology; and Xueqin...
19-Dec-2023 5:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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Xueqin Sun seeks to illuminate the underlying causes of cancer

As a new assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys faculty, Sun seeks to better understand the genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of cancers, using genome editing technologies, animal and patient-derived models, and other tools to develop more...
13-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT

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Sanjeev Ranade wants to get to the heart of congenital disease

Sanjeev S. Ranade, Ph.D., who joined the faculty of Sanford Burnham Prebys this month as an assistant professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration program, studies how proteins called transcription factors (TFs) specifically control the...
22-Jan-2024 6:00 AM EST

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When T cells and macrophages talk, Kelly Kersten listens

Kelly Kersten, Ph.D., who joined Sanford Burnham Prebys this month as an assistant professor in the Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment program, studies the interactions between immune cells and their microenvironment to better understand how...
17-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST

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Shengjie Feng channels the powers of cryogenic electron microscopy

Shengjie Feng, Ph.D. is an expert in cryo-electron microscopy, a Nobel Prize-winning imaging technology capable of creating stop-action movies of proteins and other biomolecules jostling and connecting with each other while mitochondria and other...
16-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST

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AI tool predicts responses to cancer therapy using information from each cell of the tumor

Study showcases the power of machine learning to predict therapy outcomes using rich information from single-c...
31 Dec 1969

Debanjan Dhar looks at links among liver cancer, heart health and kidney function

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist listens to the constant communication among these organs to find treatmen...
31 Dec 1969

Common HIV treatments may aid Alzheimer’s disease patients

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys uncover beneficial links between certain HIV drugs and Alzheimer’s dise...
31 Dec 1969

Tiny brain bubbles carry complete codes

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys demonstrated that vesicles traveling between cells in the brain carry mor...
31 Dec 1969

At a symposium on rare diseases, smiles were in abundance

Since 2010, we have organized an annual scientific and family conference at Sanford Burnham Prebys that covers...
28 Mar 2024

Angela Liou tackles pediatric brain tumors head-on

New physician-scientist at Sanford Burnham Prebys will also care for patients at Rady Children’s Hospital-Sa...
31 Dec 1969

Melanoma’s mysteries revealed at Sanford Burnham Prebys

Cancer Center open house welcomes San Diego community to learn the latest about melanoma research....
26 Mar 2024

Seminar Series: extrachromosomal DNA and the metabolic circuits of cancer immune suppression

The ongoing Sanford Burnham Prebys seminar series will feature a pair of speakers, Owen Chapman, Ph.D. and Kev...
25 Mar 2024

Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center seminar on March 25

The seminar’s featured speaker is Eric S. Fischer, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry and molecular ph...
25 Mar 2024

Xueqin Sun seeks to illuminate the underlying causes of cancer

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist investigates the mutational powers of cancer cells — and their vulnerab...
31 Dec 1969

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