Webinar: Clearing the Air on Smoking - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission.
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness (BCFF) - April 2014 Newsletter
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Stakeholder Call: Launch of New Cultural Competency Program for Oral Health Professionals
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Disparities in National Cancer Care Delivery: The Role of Health Literacy, Financial Hardship, And Race
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
SAVE THE DATE: 2014 U54 Educational Day - UMass Boston-DF/HCC Partnership
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
2014 Leadership and Faculty Development Conference
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Seminars in Oncology: "Arginine Methylation - Substrates, Binders and Function"
<p>EMILY FREDERICK DIMAGGIO LECTURE</p>
<p>Guest Speaker: Mark Bedford, PhD</p>
<p>Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center</p>
<p>Smithville, TX</p>
<p>Tuesday, April 22, 2014 </p>
<p>4PM</p>
<p>Jimmy Fund Auditorium</p>
<p>Hosted by: James Bradner, MD</p> (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 16, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities Spotlights Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy
UMass Boston and DF/HCC have a U54 Partnership grant with NCI/CRCHD to develop life sciences and CPCT on the UMass Boston campus. Read the Spotlight: http://crchd.cancer.gov/news/spotlights/grantee-spotlights_macoska.html (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 15, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
DF/HCC Members Presented with 2014 AACR Awards
April 14, 2014
Congratulations to Levi Garraway and Rakesh Jain, who were among the 2014 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) awardees:
Levi Garraway (DFCI) was awarded the AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship for his research in the field of cancer genomics and functional approaches to characterize solid tumors, especially melanoma and prostate cancer.
Rakesh Jain (MGH) was presented with the Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship for his work in tumor biology, leadership in developing diverse international collaborations, and his scientific mentorship. (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: News Source Type: news
NIH Minority Health Promotion Day
In honor of National Minority Health Month, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the NIH Minority Health Promotion Day on April 17th. Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco, will conclude the day's activities as the featured speaker, to provide an overview of the concept of health disparities and a conceptual framework for thinking about how disparities are created, exacerbated, and perpetuated across lifetimes and generations. The event is open to the pub...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 10, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine: From Fairness to Excellence
Dr. Marc Nivet: Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine: From Fairness to Excellence
May 20, 2014
12.30-1.30pm
The Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall
Harvard Medical School
25 Shattuck Street
Please feel free to bring your lunch
Marc A. Nivet is the Chief Diversity Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he provides strategic vision and programmatic leadership on issues surrounding community engagement, workforce and student diversity, and health equity at universities, medical schools and teaching hospitals across the United States and Canada. Dr. Nivet has spent over 20 years in academic medic...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - April 10, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
High-Throughput Polymorphism Detection
This study assessed whether (i) common genetic variation in CaSR was associated with PCa risk and (ii) these associations varied by calcium intake or plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels.
In summary the overall findings of this study showed that joint association of SNPs in CaSR was significant for lethal PCa (P = 0.04) and that this association was stronger in those men with low 25(OH)D (p=0.0009). The findings of this study indicate that CaSR may be involved in PCa progression.
Contribution of the Core: The Core performed the DNA Extraction of 2,924 individuals and TaqMan and OpenArray genotyping of 18 SNPs o...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - March 28, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
U54 Research Methods Seminar: Non-verbal response card for asking sensitive reproductive health questions: evidence from Jimma, Ethiopia
Speaker: Megan Klein Hattori, PhD
Monday, April 7th, 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Live location: UMass-Boston Healey Library, Lower Level 3501
DFCI webcast group viewing Location: 375 Longwood Avenue, Room 752
Topics for the seminar will include:
Survey modes for illiterate populationsThe non-verbal response cardExperiment testing reporting of sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in traditional vs. non-verbal response card methodsHow does the response bias differ across subgroups?
Register at: http://www.U54seminar.com
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - March 24, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
Funding Announcement: Career Development Award - Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
The Neuro-Oncology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) is seeking applications for career development projects focused on adult or pediatric gliomas. Funding will be provided through the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) mechanism.
Eligible candidates are those who are in the final year of clinical fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship (M.D., Ph.D. or equivalent rank are required) or are within 5 years of their first faculty ap...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - March 21, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Funding Announcement: Developmental Research Award - Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH AWARD
Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
The Neuro-Oncology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) is seeking applications for developmental research projects focused on adult or pediatric gliomas. Funding will be provided through the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) mechanism. Applicants must be faculty members of Harvard Medical School at the level of Instructor or higher. While the proposed research may be basic or clinical, bench-to-bedside or bedside-to-bench st...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - March 21, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
