Advancing Medical Science
SHAVED HEADS SUPPORT CHILD CANCER RESEARCH
Dr. Jennifer Pearce shaved her head at a St. Baldrick’s Foundation event to show her support for childhood cancer research. Several other employees and students did the same.
(Times Union, WNYT)
KEY IMMUNE SYSTEM DISCOVERY MADE
A research team demonstrated that a molecule they discovered several years ago named BCL11B does, in fact, play a major role in the immune system’s battle against invading pathogens and tumors.
(Record, Business Review, Visions)
ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER PRIZE IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AWARDED
For the first time since its inception in 2001, two women scientists were awarded the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize. Their groundbreaking molecular research may lead to more effective treatments for a variety of diseases.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review, Register-Star, Evening Tribune, Leader Herald, Cortland Standard, Times Herald Record, Press & Sun Bulletin, Observer-Dispatch, Saratoga Business Journal, WRGB, WTEN, WNYT, WXXA, Capital News 9, WHEC-TV, WAMC, WBEN 930, WINS 1010AM, CNBC, MSNBC, CBS)
NIH GRANT FUNDS STUDY OF A UNIVERSAL VACCINE FOR FLU, INCLUDING AVIAN FLU
With the support of a $5.4 million grant, a research team began studying a universal vaccine that would protect individuals from all forms of influenza, regardless of the latest strain or mutation.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review, Visions, WRGB, WTEN, WAMC)
SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY: SOLVED
Scientists discovered why bacterial infections are more likely to develop following an infection from the flu. Their work was reported in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review, Visions, WXXA, WRGB, WTEN, WAMC)
‘STAND UP TO CANCER’
Albany Medical College scientists discussed their cancer research projects in a television program airing during a national “Stand Up to Cancer” broadcast to support cancer research.
(WRGB)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GRANT SUPPORTS BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
A team of researchers received a $1.36 million grant to further explore BCI technology, a groundbreaking technology that uses recorded brain signals and translates them into useful outputs for communication or to control a patient’s environment.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review, Visions)
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY SUPPORTS STUDY OF BREAST CANCER GENE
Albany Med received the single largest grant ever presented by the American Cancer Society locally—a $1 million grant—to continue research examining the role an oncogene may play in future breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review, Visions, WRGB, WTEN, WNYT, WXXA, Capital News 9, WGY, WROW, Talk 1300)
COMBATING RESPIRATORY TULAREMIA
A $1.6 million National Institutes of Health grant was awarded to Dr. Timothy Sellati to study treatments for this dangerous form of tularemia.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Record, Business Review)
CANCER RESEARCH AWARDED NEARLY $5 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING
The Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research was awarded four grants, totaling $5 million, by the National Institutes of Health to focus on understanding cellular function in normal and disease states and facilitate the application of new findings not only to the field of cancer biology, but also to a variety of other diseases including atherosclerosis, arthritis and diabetes.
(Times Union, Daily Gazette, Business Review)
MEDICAL CENTER ENROLLS IN STUDY OF NEW LIVER CANCER TREATMENT
Albany Med became the first hospital in the region to offer TheraSphere, a treatment that uses tiny injectable radioactive glass beads, or microspheres—half the thickness of a human hair—to deliver radiation to liver tumors.
(Daily Gazette)
