by Garth Sundem | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Think of energy metabolism like a party popper: Ripping something apart releases a bang. Most of your cells rip apart sugar to release the “bang” of energy. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer Cell shows that cancer stem...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
The HER2 gene is a well-known driver of breast cancer, where changes in this gene are found in about 1-in-5 cases of the disease. HER2 also contributes to about 3 percent of lung cancers, representing about 6,500 patients per year. But while drugs like trastuzumab and...
by Taylor Abarca | Nov 6, 2018 | Latest News, Philanthropy
On November 17, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is hosting “An Evening of Hope” with the non-profit Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research. This special event raises funds for life-saving pancreatic cancer research at the University of...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 24, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that most cancer cells have found ways to remove this “finger” – commonly, by breaking the action of a gene called p53 that puts the BH3 finger in motion. Now think of...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 23, 2018 | Honors, Latest News
When Rani Powers was a junior in high school, her younger sister was hospitalized at Children’s Hospital Colorado with systemic lupus. “She spent two months hospitalized, some of that time in the ICU,” Rani says. “It was a scary time for her health, but it was also...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 23, 2018 | Honors, Latest News
Wells A. Messersmith, MD, has spent more than a decade running clinical trials that attempt to match gastrointestinal cancer patients with new therapies targeting the genetic causes of their conditions. On October 2, 2018 he was invited to share what he’s learned, as...
