MD Anderson faculty express frustration with leadership
Ron DePinho, the president of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, is under fire, after an internal survey found frustration among the institution’s faculty over its leadership and direction. Read more
Texas resignation puts peer review under microscope
In the wake of the resignation of its Nobel Prize-winning scientific leader, the$3 billion Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) is defending the integrity of its grant-making process. Read more
US cancer-genome repository hopes to speed research
The University of California Santa Cruz has opened a $10.3 million cancer genomics hub (CGHub) that will store and make available all the data from the three major U.S. cancer sequencing projects, including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Read more
A bend in the river for cancer genomics
People can be forgiven for thinking that the messages coming out of the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago this week seem to conflict. Finishing up today, the meeting hosted just shy of 17,000 scientists, exhibitors and guests and had several talks expounding the dizzying pace of genome technologies being applied to cancer diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, some speakers warned of the challenges inherent in doing cancer ‘omics.’ … Read more