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Trial Library Emerges Out of Stealth with $5 Million in Seed Funding
Trial Library, Inc., an oncology clinical trials company, today announced it has come out of stealth mode and received its first funding to address the need for equity in patient recruitment to oncology clinical trials. The $5 million seed round was led by Deena Shakir, Partner at Lux Capital, with
Abortion Ban May Increase the Risk of Death for Pregnant Women with Cancer
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Eleven Cancer Research Projects Funded in Spring 2022 RAP Cycle
Eleven investigators and teams were awarded grants in support of cancer research projects in the spring 2022 cycle of the UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP). Funded by various agencies across UCSF, the awards span a range of topics from cancer screening to image-guided drug delivery to
Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Are Common In Cancer Survivors
While children receiving chemotherapy routinely undergo hearing tests, adults don’t, and a new study by UC San Francisco reports for the first time that significant hearing issues often occur among adult survivors of the most common forms of cancer. The researchers found that more than half the
An atlas of oesophageal cancer development
From the team taking on our Cancer Causes challenge, a new integrated atlas of the stromal and epithelial interactions that drive cancers associated with chronic inflammation provides a new way to understand cancer types with the poorest survival. Inflammation – the immune system’s normal response