• Featured Article: Using New Approach, Scientists Find Evidence for Cancer Stem Cells
• Trial Suggests New Treatment Option for Some Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
• U.S. Prostate Cancer Incidence Falls after Change in Screening Recommendations
• Single HPV Test Predicts the Risk of Cervical Cancer for 18 Years
• Discovery of Fused Genes in Brain Cancer Points to Possible Treatments
• A Conversation with Dr. Walter Willett about Diet and Cancer
• Featured Clinical Trial: Genetically Engineered Immunotherapy for Advanced Cancer
• Bringing Science to Cancer Survivors: Workshop Series Reaches a Milestone

• Bill Would Harm Pancreatic Cancer Research - Scientists Warn Of Unintended Consequences
• Guest Editorial: Even Slam-Dunk Applications Can Benefit From Public Scrutiny and Discussion at ODAC
• Nancy Brinker Resigns as CEO of Komen
• Bill Introduced To Curb NIH Use Of Title 42 Salaries

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® RFAs

Susan G. Komen for the CureĻ is excited to announce the release of Requests for Applications (RFAs) for Investigator-Initiated, Career Catalyst Research, and Challenge Grants: Breast Cancer and the Environment.
RFAs are available online

Investigator-Initiated and Career Catalyst Research Grants
Pre-Applications Due - September 10, 2012, 5 p.m., Eastern Time
Full-Applications Due (invitation only) - December 17, 2012, 5 p.m., Eastern Time

Challenge Grants: Breast Cancer and the Environment
Pre-Applications Due - September 10, 2012, 5 p.m., Eastern Time
Full-Applications Due (invitation only) - December 17, 2012, 5 p.m., Eastern Time

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Bay Area Science Festival 2012 - call for entries

Bay Area Science Festival, a 10 day celebration of science led by UCSF scheduled for 10/25-11/3 this year. The festival is organized by the Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) here at UCSF.

The festival is entering our 2nd year - last year we drew over 70,000 people to festival events, including 22,000 to the festival finale at AT&T Park, a hands-on science finale that turned the ballpark into a huge outdoor science museum. This year, we expect that number to grow, up to 30,000 at the finale at AT&T Park on 11/3. We'll also have 60+ other events including many for adults.

Help spread the word about this festival to people within your department and participate if possible. Our "Call for Exhibitors" open through September 28th. We do not charge any fees for UCSF groups to participate.

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The Departments within the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building are hosting the
First Diller Building Off-Site Retreat, Nov 4-5th

The main goals of this retreat are to

• Provide a forum for students, and non-clinical and clinical scientists within HDFCCC at all post-doctoral levels to present their work in oral and poster form.
• Foster collaborations between scientists within HDFCCC.

Employment Opportunity: Computational Biology Postdocs

forwarded by Carlo Maley
Yale University is recruiting applications for a postdoctoral position in bioinformatics to be employed in a long-term collaborative project between Yale and Gilead Pharmaceuticals. Research in this position will be focused on identifying tumorigenic mutations based on extensive in-house and public tumor DNA sequencing. Applicants should be proficient at processing large next-generation sequencing datasets and should be capable of working productively with others on parallel projects at a rapid pace. Ideal candidates would have familiarity or interest in database construction, maximum likelihood and Bayesian statistical inference, cancer biology, and in some cases transcriptomics and / or molecular evolutionary biology. Appointments may start immediately or at any time within the next nine months, and are open until filled. For full consideration, please send a CV and a list of three references with contact information to Jeffrey.Townsend@Yale.edu.