Posted June 12th, 2007 by admin
NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 06/12/2007
Investors Offer $1 Million For Best Cancer Research Idea
A group of New York investors will award $1 million a year to the person with the best idea in cancer research, and will share the idea worldwide. The Gotham Prize encourages novel thinking in cancer research and will be selected by a panel of scientists from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. The first $1 million will be awarded next February.
Organizers will pre-qualify those who submit their ideas to a Web site, which also allows other researchers and scientists visiting the site to build on or collaborate on individual projects. Said Gary Curhan, a medical researcher and physician at Harvard Medical School, and co-creator of the prize, “Even if four or five great ideas come out of this, it will be worth it.”
To submit your idea, click here.
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Posted March 13th, 2007 by admin
NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 03/13/2007
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA) have found that the p53 protein, known to guard against cancer-causing DNA damage, provides an entirely different level of cancer protection: by prompting the skin to tan in response to ultraviolet light from the sun, p53 deters the development of melanoma skin cancer. New melanoma treatments could result from the discovery.
“The number one risk factor for melanoma is an inability to tan; people who tan easily or have dark pigmentation are far less likely to develop the disease,” said the study’s senior author, David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston.. “This study suggests that p53, one of the best-known tumor-suppressor proteins in our body, has a powerful role in protecting us against sun damage in the skin.”
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