2016

Call for proposals: Cancer Program pilot grants 2017

August 12, 2016
HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CANCER PROGRAM PILOT GRANTS 2017 

The Cancer Program of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) invites applications for pilot grants to be awarded for research in 2017. The intent is to provide resources for innovative projects in cancer stem cell biology, including basic and translational research. This funding is for innovative, high-impact research projects that will fundamentally advance current understanding of...

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Student science rendezvous in space

August 8, 2016

Current and former HIP interns launch research projects on the same rocket

by Hannah L. Robbins

Mosquitos buzzed in the warm, night air at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Half past midnight on July 18, and still the spectators could not detect activity on the launch pad. In the dark, among fellow scientists and students, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program (HIP) intern Michael Liu waited.

Roughly two miles away, the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket stood on Space Launch Complex 40 ready to launch the Dragon spacecraft. Among two...

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Targeted BMI1 inhibition impairs tumor growth lung adenocarcinomas with low CEBPα Expression

August 3, 2016

Researchers at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), have discovered a new way in which the development of lung cancer can be stopped. In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, the researchers found that inhibiting a protein called BMI1 impaired tumour growth in lung cancer.

The study was led by HSCI Principal Faculty member Daniel Tenen, MD, his associate Elena Levantini, PhD, and included first author Dr Kol Jia Yong, a former CSI...

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