Growing up, Dr. Jonathan Villena-Vargas had no idea what he wanted to be when he grew up. The only thing he knew for certain was that he did not want to become a physician. Born in Peru, Jonathan and
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Los Angeles, CA, Apr 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) have awarded a grant, generously funded in part by Bristol-Myers Squibb, to support research…
As a recipient of the LCFA Young Investigator Research Grant in Translational Immuno-oncology, Dr. Ramin Salehi-Rad’s goal is to progress towards becoming an independent investigator in the field of translational lung cancer immunology. Translational research is aimed at converting
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Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) and the International Lung Cancer Foundation (ILCF) are excited to announce the winners of two new Young Investigator grants Two new $200,000 grant-funded studies supported by the Lung Cancer Foundation of America, the…
It is no secret that there is a lack of diversity in clinical research. With fewer than five percent of all adults diagnosed with cancer participating in trials, the adverse effects of this disparity are magnified when it comes
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How can we better understand how the body’s immune system responds to cancer cells? That’s the question that Dr. Adrian Sacher has focused his research on since 2019. And now, as the awardee of the 2020 LCFA/IASLC/BMS Young Investigator
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What is translational research? Translational research aims to translate scientific discoveries from the lab into clinical results that directly benefit patients. For Dr. Vincent Lam, an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, medicine was a ‘second line’
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Just like people, no two lung cancer tumors are identical. In recent years, the most effective lung cancer research involves a technique known as precision medicine. Also referred to as personalized medicine, precision medicine tailors treatment to each patient
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For many doctors, their dream to be scientists begins when they are children. It is often the very fabric of their being that, when they grow up, they want to be in the business of healing, making discoveries, and
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Small cell lung cancer life expectancy and the need for more research Lung cancer research has made many wonderful advances in just the past few years. However, small cell lung cancer life expectancy has not increased as quickly as
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