by Garth Sundem | Sep 12, 2019 | Featured, Honors
The Costello lab, James Costello, PhD, at left The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is set up to fund individual projects in fields like genomics, computational biology, and pathology. Now researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center are taking advantage of an...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 10, 2019 | Latest News, Philanthropy
QUarterback Babe Parilli honored at celebrity golf tournament raising money for research at CU Cancer Center Vito “Babe” Parilli was the fourth selection in the 1952 NFL draft, going to the Green Bay Packers. In 1961, after being traded a couple times,...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured, Research
Thomas Cech, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado) Healthy cells have a built-in self-destruct mechanism: Strands of DNA called “telomeres” act as protective...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 4, 2019 | Honors, Latest News
Evelinn Borrayo, PhD “There are people in underserved communities and in rural areas in Colorado that are dying of cancers that are preventable and treatable,” says Evelinn Borrayo, PhD, the newly appointed Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement at...
by Garth Sundem | Aug 20, 2019 | Latest News
Paul Norman, PhD Your immune system’s natural killer cells recognize and attack two major kinds of danger – cells infected by viruses and cells affected by cancer. When natural killer (NK) cells see a cancer cell, they kill it (naturally…). And a major research focus...
