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New Discoveries January 17, 2018

2018 National Academy of Sciences Award

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will honor 19 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and medical sciences. Congratulations to Damon Runyon alumnus and mentor Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon Scholar ‘06-‘08), of Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, who will receive the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for the discovery of long noncoding RNAs and the invention of genomic technologies.

Honors and Awards January 10, 2018

TIME Magazine's The Boss: Lorraine Egan Ditched a Law Career to Help Find a Cure for Cancer

In Time Magazine's The Boss, successful women like Damon Runyon's Lorraine Egan share how they reached the top and the lessons they learned along the way.

Honors and Awards January 5, 2018

Where Innovation Comes From

At the end of last year, Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., was appointed Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this critically important role, he oversees the federal government’s $6 billion annual investment in cancer research. We know him well, as Dr. Sharpless has served on the selection committee for the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award.

Honors and Awards December 11, 2017

Amanda Balboni Iniguez Receives the Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation

The Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation is given annually to a third-year Damon Runyon Fellow whose research has the greatest potential to impact the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of pediatric cancer. In its second year, Amanda Balboni Iniguez, PhD, received the award at the annual Fellows' Retreat.

Honors and Awards December 7, 2017

Damon Runyon’s Broadway Tickets and Gift Certificates for the Holidays!

Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets offers Broadway’s best seats and the opportunity to support cutting edge cancer research at the same time.

Some of our most loyal customers, like Rocco Staino, have been purchasing their Broadway tickets through us for years or even decades. Mr. Staino is the retired director of the Keefe Library of the North Salem School District in New York, and a contributing editor for School Library Journal and also writes for the Huffington Post.

New Discoveries December 4, 2017

Gene associated with metastatic melanoma identified

Craig J. Ceol, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '05-'07) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, and colleagues, have identified a new protein that is involved in metastatic melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. The protein, GDF6, is part of a class of proteins called “growth differentiation factors” that helps cells divide and differentiate into specific cell types. Looking at human melanoma cells, the researchers found that 80 percent of patient tumors had elevated levels of GDF6 and these higher levels correlated to the aggressiveness of the cancer.

Honors and Awards November 30, 2017

Huffington Post features Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer recently spoke with the Huffington Post about current challenges and opportunities in cancer research.

Is America losing the opportunity to finally cure cancer? Maybe.

New Discoveries November 30, 2017

2017 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

Chuan He, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '00-'02) of the University of Chicago, Chicago, was named one of this year's winners of the 2017 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. The award recognizes promising investigators aged 45 or younger at the time of nomination for their efforts in advancing cancer research.

New Discoveries November 23, 2017

Clues to the association between Fusobacteria and colon cancer

Matthew L. Meyerson, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '95-'98), of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and colleagues, reported a study that provides clues to the role Fusobacteria may play in the development of human colon cancers. Meyerson was one of the first scientists to discover that Fusobacteria, which normally inhabit the mouth, are closely associated with colon cancer cells but not normal colon cells. Researchers have now confirmed the presence of Fusobacteria in up to half of all colon tumors.

Honors and Awards November 9, 2017

Damon Runyon 2017 Fellow's Retreat—Sharing Ideas, Building a Community

First- and third-year Damon Runyon Fellows look forward to our fall retreat as a time to come together from their separate labs around the country, meet their colleagues and share ideas. This September, Fellows gathered in Beverly, Massachusetts.

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