DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science – 5/29

DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science: Infections, Immunity and Cancer Date: May 29, 2018 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Reception to follow Location: HMS Countway Library, Ballard Room, 5th … Continue reading “DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science – 5/29”

DFCI PS-OC Call for Pilot Project – Due 6/1

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (DFCI PS-OC) is dedicated to developing pilot projects in order to enhance the specific efforts of the PS-OC in the framework of evolutionary dynamics of … Continue reading “DFCI PS-OC Call for Pilot Project – Due 6/1”

DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science: Infections, Immunity and Cancer

DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science: Infections, Immunity and Cancer Date: May 29, 2018 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Reception to follow Location: HMS Countway Library, Ballard Room, 5th … Continue reading “DF/HCC Brief Updates in Population Science: Infections, Immunity and Cancer”

Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2

Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium on Data Science Hot Topics in Cancer Epidemiology Do Statins Increase the Survival of Cancer Patients? Presentations and panel discussion hosted by Lorelei Mucci & Miguel Hernán Friday, … Continue reading “Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2”

Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Scott Carter, along with his team Alex Shalek and Priscilla Brastiano of MIT, recently received funding from the Bridge Project for their work to characterize … Continue reading “Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success”

Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy

An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. A recent article outlines independent discoveries, led by two research … Continue reading “Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy”