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Dr. Roger Lo received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to help understand and develop new therapies for an aggressive form of melanoma driven by so-called RAS mutations.

February 20, 2019 8:00 AM

A UCLA-led study suggests that for people with recurrent glioblastoma, administering an immunotherapy drug before surgery is more effective than using the drug afterward.

February 11, 2019 6:00 AM

A new UCLA-led study shows that men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer can safely undergo higher doses of radiation over a significantly shorter period of time and still have the same, successful outcomes as from a much longer course of treatment.

February 08, 2019 8:00 AM

New research from UCLA, in collaboration with groups in Toronto, published in European Urology identifies a set of characteristics in tumors that determine if they can be seen by Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

February 07, 2019 6:00 AM

Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of the Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program, has been named a co-winner of the 2019 Sjöberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Sweden’s Sjöberg Foundation.

February 05, 2019 10:30 AM

Robert Prins, professor of neurosurgery and molecular and medical pharmacology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a $750,000 grant to support his research in developing immunotherapies for brain tumors.

January 29, 2019 8:00 AM

In a new study published by JAMA Network Open, UCLA researchers found that the distribution of industry payments appears to show sex disparity in industry relationships among radiation oncologists.

January 25, 2019 10:00 AM

Catherine Crespi, professor-in-residence of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed by former California Governor Jerry Brown to the state’s Carcinogen Identification Committee.

January 25, 2019 9:00 AM

A study by UCLA researchers is the first to demonstrate a technique for coaxing pluripotent stem cells — which can give rise to every cell type in the body and which can be grown indefinitely in the lab — into becoming mature T cells capable of killing tumor cells.

January 17, 2019 3:00 PM

In this Q&A, Paul Boutros explains how scientists take data, such as DNA sequencing, to design personal treatments

January 16, 2019 8:00 AM

Researchers have discovered molecular hallmarks of hypoxia in the first-ever pan-cancer analysis of low oxygen in human tumors, with a special focus on prostate cancer.

January 14, 2019 8:00 AM

UCLA scientists have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers do not require increased glucose to power their development and growth, contrary to a long-held belief about cancer metabolism.

January 09, 2019 11:00 AM

In this video profile, UCLA’s Dr. Josh Sasine describes his connection to multiple myeloma and why he is looking for new ways to treat this cancer that accumulates in the bone marrow.

January 08, 2019 12:00 PM

Dr. Linda Liau, chair of the neurosurgery department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded the Abhijit Guha Award for her pioneering work on treating brain tumors.

December 21, 2018 8:30 AM

Dr. Siavash Kurdistani has been elected as members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists.

December 20, 2018 9:00 AM

A new study by UCLA scientists shows that enhancers, snippets of DNA that contribute to gene regulation, fall into the same “insulated neighborhoods” or chromatin loops as the target gene and other gene-specific regulatory elements.

December 10, 2018 11:00 AM

A UCLA-led research team has developed a spray gel embedded with immune-boosting drugs that could help fight recurrent cancer.

December 10, 2018 9:00 AM

Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the La Jolla Institute of Immunology have identified a new type of T cell called a phospholipid-reactive T cell that is able to recognize phospholipids, the molecules that help form cells’ outer membranes.

December 05, 2018 10:00 AM

UCLA researchers have found that commonly used hormone therapies for women diagnosed with breast cancer do not appear to cause significant cognitive dysfunction following the treatment.

November 28, 2018 11:00 AM

Carla Koehler, a professor with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Koehler’s election is an honor bestowed on her by her peers within the Association.

November 27, 2018 10:00 AM