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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Cancer Genome Discovery in an Age of Precision Oncology

| NEW YORK GENOME CENTER, 101 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, FIRST FLOOR
Barry Taylor, Ph.D., assistant member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Hope for Eczema: New Treatment Developments

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Seminars, Other Seminars
Therapeutic Updates and Patient Dialogue
Emma Guttman, M.D., Ph.D., director, Center for Excellence in Eczema, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
James Krueger, M.D., Ph.D., director, Milstein Medical Research Program, Laboratory of Investigative Dermatology, The Rockefeller University
Daniela Velasco, eczema patent and trial participant
Mark Lebwohl, M.D., professor and chair, department of dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Julie Block, CEO and president, National Eczema Association

Tri-Institutional Calendars

The close proximity among the three institutions which comprise the Tri-I has led to a culture that encourages interinstitutional interactions and shared resources, including access to lectures and seminars from internationally renowned scientists and clinicians:

Upcoming Events

Pre-Seminar Coffee and Cookies

| LOWER LEVEL GREENBERG BUILDING (CRC)

Microscale Biophysics of the Ocean: A Single-Cell Perspective on the Biological Carbon Pump

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Chemical Biology Approaches to Define Immunomodulatory Protease Functions

| 116 ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORIES, MSKCC, 430 E. 67TH ST.

News

The value of publishing negative data

Scientific publishing has a bias against negative results and that hurts science, says Tim Fessenden, editor of Life Science Alliance, a publication of Rockefeller University Press. Here’s how journal editors can help.

Researchers identify gene that calms the mind and improves attention in mice

Study demonstrates that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing "noise" in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for the study of ADHD and other attention disorders.

Some mammals can hit pause on a pregnancy. Understanding how that happens could help us treat cancer.

New study reveals the molecular brake that lets embryonic stem cells enter suspended animation, while retaining the ability to develop normally—which could shed light on abnormal cell growth in humans.

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