by Garth Sundem | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Research
Jean Mulcahy Levy, MD Cancers used to be defined by where they grow in the body – lung cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, etc. But work in recent decades has shown that cancers sharing specific genetic changes may have more in common than cancers that happen to grow...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 16, 2019 | Featured, Philanthropy
Adam Green, MD The technique known as RNA sequencing lets researchers discover which genes are turned on and off in a sample of tissue. In cancer, RNA-seq (as it’s known) is used to find the faulty genes driving the disease. But not all cells within a tumor are the...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 8, 2019 | Honors, Latest News
Jean Mulcahy-Levy, md Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, has spent a decade researching how, why and when cells eat themselves. Healthy cells use this process, called autophagy, to recycle unneeded bits of themselves, often to survive periods of stress. Unfortunately, cancer...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, Latest News
If you drew a line straight back between your eyes, you would hit the pituitary gland in about three inches. Though only about the size of a pea, the pituitary is a master regulator of hormone systems throughout the body. It’s also a fairly common origin of tumors....
by Erika Matich | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Tim Reagan saved Brady’s life, adopting the high-energy rescue dog from a shelter. Within a year, Brady returned the favor. “We were walking on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 2016 and in a rambunctious, playful way he jumped up and bit my arm and it felt really...
