Highlights - June 2017

Highlights from the Current Issue: June 2017.

2017 Research Highlights

With NIH support, scientists across the United States and the world conduct wide-ranging research to improve the health of our nation. Groundbreaking NIH-funded research often receives top scientific honors. In 2017, these included 4 NIH-supported Nobel Prize winners and 2 NIH-funded recipients of top awards from the Lasker Foundation. Here’s just a small sampling of the research accomplishment...

OncoLog - May-June 2017

6 R of remarkable response rates and long-lasting remissions are beginning to emerge from clinical trials of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in patients with B cell malignancies. However, the promising therapy is out of reach for patients who lack sufficient T cells for CAR T cell generation or cannot afford to forgo treatment for the time it takes to generate CAR T cells. To sidestep t...

Highlights from the WIN 2017 Symposium, 26–27 June 2017, Paris, France: ‘Expediting Global Innovation in Precision Cancer Medicine’

The Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) symposium brings together representatives from academic institutions, pharmaceutical partners, technology companies and charitable organisations from across the globe for an annual summit, discussing ongoing research and the latest developments in precision medicine. Now, in its seventh year, the aims of the WIN consortium's annual meeting, to foster co...

2017 SNMMI Highlights Lecture: Neuroscience.