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  • Dana-Farber research rewrites theory of why chemo works

    Challenging a half-century-old theory about why chemotherapy agents target cancer cells, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have devised a test that can predict how effective the drugs will be by determining whether a patient’s tumor cells are already “primed” for death.

    In a study published online by the journal Science, [...]

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  • Dr. Dalton and Dr. Hurt share Jim King Leadership Award

    The 2011 Senator Jim King Leadership Award for excellence in biomedical research has been awarded to Dr. William Dalton, President and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center and Dr. Myra Hurt, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research at the Florida State University College of Medicine. The award was presented by FL [...]

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  • Scripps appoints Damon Page assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience

    Page, 36, will work on the Scripps Florida campus in Jupiter. Prior to his appointment, he was a senior analyst at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington.

    “Damon’s research on autism makes a valuable addition to our department,” said Ron L. Davis, chair of the Department of Neuroscience. [...]

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  • Is lung regeneration closer to reality?

    Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to “turn on” lung regeneration — an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders.

    In the journal Cell, the research team reports that they have uncovered [...]

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  • Programming cells to target specific tissue

    Inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier to effective cell therapy. To address this hurdle, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a platform approach to chemically incorporate homing receptors onto the surface of cells. This simple approach has the potential to improve the [...]

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  • BioFlorida Conference 2011 wrap-up

    With Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn providing the official proclamation that Oct. 23-29 is “Bioscience Week” in Tampa, and Gov. Rick Scott announcing via video that it was “Bioscience Week” in the state, the momentum and energy associated with Florida’s burgeoning bioscience industry was very much on display at the 14th [...]

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  • New Funding Program for Florida University Spinoffs

    The Florida Institute for Commercialization of Public Research has announced the availability of funding for early-stage technology and life sciences companies that have spun out of Florida’s universities and research institutions. The goal of the new Seed Capital Accelerator Program is to bridge the funding gap for companies [...]

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  • China’s BGI signs co-location agreement with UC Davis

    While you were at the BioFlorida Convention, the University of California, Davis, and BGI, the world’s largest genomic institute, signed an agreement to will establish a state-of-the-art BGI sequencing facility for immediate use on the UC Davis Health System campus in Sacramento. Planning for a permanent BGI@UC Davis Joint Genome [...]

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  • UCF bioinformaticians process Sanford-Burnham data

    Ranjan Perera, Ph.D., associate professor at Sanford-Burnham, has been investigating the role of microRNA in melanoma for several years.

    Perera and his team of biologists operate a state-of-the-art genome sequencing laboratory to compare patterns of microRNAs and their target gene expression in melanoma cells and normal melanocytes in hopes of finding [...]

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  • UCF/Sanford-Burnham team to image cancer tumors

    Kevin Belfield, Ph.D., UCF chemistry professor  and Masanobu Komatsu, Ph.D., an associate professor and cancer researcher at Sanford-Burnham have teamed up to better image cancer tumors. Their research focuses on a non-invasive way to image tumors within deep tissue that one day might complement or replace traditional biopsies and perhaps [...]

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