Seminars in Oncology: "Small Molecule Transcriptional Modulators"
Guest Speaker: Anna Mapp, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 4PM
Jimmy Fund Auditorium (35 Binney Street - Boston)
If you would like to join the Seminars in Oncology email list, please email: claudia_steele@dfci.harvard.edu (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - March 19, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
Request for Applications: Career Development Award 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 appointment who hold the current rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor. Applications will be judged on their scienti...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 21, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Funding Source Type: news
Request for Applications: Developmental Research Award 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 strategies must be addressed in the application, as the ultimate purpose of the program is to promote translational researc...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 21, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Funding Source Type: news
Webinar: Young, Healthy...Uninsured? [RESCHEDULED]
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Article: African American History Month: A Time for Reflections on Health Disparities
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
DF/HCC Outcomes Research Seminar: Bringing Specialist Care to the Community: Evaluation of an Outreach Initiative
DF/HCC Outcomes Research Seminar on Tuesday, February 18, 2014:
Bringing Specialist Care to the Community: Evaluation of an Outreach Initiative
Christopher Lathan, MD, MS, MPH
Faculty Director for Cancer Care Equity, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
The seminar will run from 9-10 am in the Dana Building, 11th Floor, Room 1130. A light breakfast will be served.
Directions: The Dana Building is located at 44 Binney Street. Please enter the Dana Building through the main entrance at the corner of Binney Street and Jimmy Fund Way. Take the main/patie...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Webinar: Leveraging Technology to Improve Accrual
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Webinar recording and slides now available for "Improving Quality & Safety for Diverse Populations: An Innovative Interprofessional Curriculum"
Now available: "Improving Quality & Safety for Diverse Populations: An Innovative Interprofessional Curriculum" Webinar Recording and Slides
The recording and slides from our latest webinar are now available. Alexander Green, MD, MPH, Associate Director of the Disparities Solutions Center and Gail Gall, PhD, APRN, BC, Clinical Assistant Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing presented on the development and implementation of an innovative, interprofessional curriculum for medical and nursing students
For a full project description, please click here. Do...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - February 6, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
U54 Population Research Seminar Series: Power calculations: when and why are they necessary?
Please join us for the next seminar in the U54 Population Research Seminar Series, "Power calculations: when and why are they necessary?"
Speaker: Wendy London, PhD, from Harvard Medical School
Date: February 3, 2014
Time: 12pm - 1pm
RM: The talk will be streamed at 375 Longwood Avenue, RM 752
A light lunch will be served.
Register at: http://www.U54seminar.com (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - January 24, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
Seminars in Oncology: "Histone Modifying Enzymes"
Guest Speaker: Stephen Nimer, MD
Director, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Miami, FL
Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 4PM
Jimmy Fund Auditorium (35 Binney Street - Boston)
Hosted by: David Frank, MD, PhD (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - January 22, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
DF/HCC Brief Updates Series: What's Up In Outcomes Research?
Tuesday February 4 3:00-5:00PM Smith Family Room (Dana 1620) at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The DF/HCC Population Science programs is organizing a series of events over the next year to give an overview of the exciting scientific innovations and progress from each program. The goal of the events is to share scientific progress, facilitate active communication, build new collaborations and show synergy across the Population Sciences programs. The format will be a number of short talks of about 6 minutes each, covering the range of activities within the individual program. A reception will follow each eve...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - January 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Webinar: Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Cancer Clinical Trials
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - January 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
DF/HCC members awarded funding for cancer research initiatives
The NIH continues to recognize DF/HCC as a leader in cancer research by awarding funding to a number of our research initiatives. Recently, these awards included two new or competitively renewed program project grants: 1P01AG041710-01A1: Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies of In-depth Communities ($m)PI: Lisa Berkman, PhDOver the last decades, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced a demographic and epidemiological transition with declines in mortality from infectious diseases and increases in the prevalence of non-communicable disease. Many adults in SSA are now surviving with chron...
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - December 20, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
DF/HCC CURE Program 2014 - Applications now available
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Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - December 9, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: IECD Source Type: news
Seminars in Oncology: "Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs"
Guest Speaker: Howard Chang, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
HHMI Early Career Scientist
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
4PM
Jimmy Fund Auditorium
Hosted by: Shirley Liu, PhD (Source: DF/HCC: Latest News)
Source: DF/HCC: Latest News - December 4, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Announcements Source Type: news
