DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTAs we learn more about the implications of genetic variation in 21st century medicine, the utilization of genotyping as a molecular t...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PDT, 10:00 AM EDT, 4:00 PM CETThis is the second topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’...
DATE: October 18, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM ESTOver the past decade, 25-OH vitamin D has become one of the most common assays requested by physicians.The increase in testing volum...
DATE: October 17, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTResearching and understanding the mechanisms of drug resistance are essential to determine therapies that are more effective on an in...
The promise of precision and personalized medicine is rooted in accurate, highly sensitive, and specific disease biomarkers. This is particularly true for cancer-a disease characterized by ma...
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a rare sun-shielded melanoma subtype associated with worse survival than cutaneous melanoma (CM), a more common form of skin cancer linked to exposure to u...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
The detection of CTCs has been used as useful biomarkers in prognosis and monitoring therapeutic response of patients with metastatic cancer. However, during the course of cancer therapy, CTC...
The role played by inflammatory hypoxia in biology and treatment of solid tumors will be reviewed. The opportunity to enhance all forms of current anti-tumor therapies through tumor re-...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer among Americans, and the second deadliest. Its pathogenesis results from an interplay between environmental factors that influence biol...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the “deadly” cancers, defined as those with a 5-year relative survival rate of less than 50%. Although ranking 12th in terms of incidence, it is...
Exosomes are nano-scale lipid membrane-enclosed extracellular vesicles that form in the cellular endosomal system but are released outside the cell. These virus-sized “fat balls”...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
The first small molecule inhibitor of the molecular chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) was identified more than 20 years ago. Upon determination of the drug binding site and clarificatio...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
DATE: October 10, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDTPatient-derived xenografts (PDX) are increasingly being used in biomedical research for therapeutic analysis in mice. Unlike traditional cell line...
DATE: October 4th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET, 5:00PM (GMT+2)New HCV drugs are now approved which, when used in combination, yield very high rates of cure of HC...
Traditional high throughput screening (HTS) assays for neuronal targets employ non-human primary neuronal cells due to the scale necessary for HTS. Isolation of mouse primary neurons can be u...
I will present my lab’s effort on studying and manipulating RNA processing, with particular emphasis on using CRISPR/Cas systems for targeting RNA in living cells in diseases such as my...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
DATE: September 27, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETTransplant Educational Webinar SeriesChallenges in CMV Management Management of CMV infected and immu...
Einstein researcher Robert Singer, Ph.D., discusses a breakthrough in microscopy that is allowing scientists to track messenger RNA in living cells in real time. The study, published in the S...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTAs we learn more about the implications of genetic variation in 21st century medicine, the utilization of genotyping as a molecular t...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PDT, 10:00 AM EDT, 4:00 PM CETThis is the second topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’...
DATE: October 18, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM ESTOver the past decade, 25-OH vitamin D has become one of the most common assays requested by physicians.The increase in testing volum...
DATE: October 17, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTResearching and understanding the mechanisms of drug resistance are essential to determine therapies that are more effective on an in...
The promise of precision and personalized medicine is rooted in accurate, highly sensitive, and specific disease biomarkers. This is particularly true for cancer-a disease characterized by ma...
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a rare sun-shielded melanoma subtype associated with worse survival than cutaneous melanoma (CM), a more common form of skin cancer linked to exposure to u...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
The detection of CTCs has been used as useful biomarkers in prognosis and monitoring therapeutic response of patients with metastatic cancer. However, during the course of cancer therapy, CTC...
The role played by inflammatory hypoxia in biology and treatment of solid tumors will be reviewed. The opportunity to enhance all forms of current anti-tumor therapies through tumor re-...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer among Americans, and the second deadliest. Its pathogenesis results from an interplay between environmental factors that influence biol...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the “deadly” cancers, defined as those with a 5-year relative survival rate of less than 50%. Although ranking 12th in terms of incidence, it is...
Exosomes are nano-scale lipid membrane-enclosed extracellular vesicles that form in the cellular endosomal system but are released outside the cell. These virus-sized “fat balls”...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
The first small molecule inhibitor of the molecular chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) was identified more than 20 years ago. Upon determination of the drug binding site and clarificatio...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
DATE: October 10, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDTPatient-derived xenografts (PDX) are increasingly being used in biomedical research for therapeutic analysis in mice. Unlike traditional cell line...
DATE: October 4th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET, 5:00PM (GMT+2)New HCV drugs are now approved which, when used in combination, yield very high rates of cure of HC...
Traditional high throughput screening (HTS) assays for neuronal targets employ non-human primary neuronal cells due to the scale necessary for HTS. Isolation of mouse primary neurons can be u...
I will present my lab’s effort on studying and manipulating RNA processing, with particular emphasis on using CRISPR/Cas systems for targeting RNA in living cells in diseases such as my...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
DATE: September 27, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETTransplant Educational Webinar SeriesChallenges in CMV Management Management of CMV infected and immu...
Einstein researcher Robert Singer, Ph.D., discusses a breakthrough in microscopy that is allowing scientists to track messenger RNA in living cells in real time. The study, published in the S...