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AACR CEO Margaret Foti receives honorary M.D. from the University of San Pablo CEU

... of the degree by the Governing Council of the University chaired by Alfredo Dagnino and was sworn in as M.D. "honoris causa" by the University Rector alfonso Bullon de Mendoza. "I am deeply humbled by this extraordinary recognition of my work, and I want to thank the university for seeing fit to honor m...

New Insights, Inroads Against Breast, Ovarian Cancers

...biology of the cancer." Two other studies presented at ASCO could represent advances in the treatment of cervical cancer. In one study, led by Dr. alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez of Mexico's National Cancer Institute, researchers found that adding the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine (Gemzar) to standard chemo and...

Top Celebs Tee it for Melanoma at 6th annual Hack n' Smack (Top 10 in Southland Golf Mag)

... Nordling (24), Grant Show (Private Practice), Scott Elrod (Men in Trees) , Paula Trickey (The O.C.) , Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) , alfonso Ribeiro (Fresh Prince) , Joel Murray (Mad Men), Harold Greene (LA News Anchor) , Lorenzo Neal (NFL Ravens - Pro Bowler) , Gr...

Celebrity Event Gives Local Non-Profits a Reason to be Thankful

...nament at Tampa Bay Downs in the Silks Poker Room. Confirmed celebrities include Ozzie Smith, Clyde Drexler, Joe Carter, Lawrence Taylor, Ed Moses and alfonso Ribeiro. Unlike most other Super Bowl events, Par and Poker is free to attend and open to the general public. The Foundation encourages the host city ...

Identification of 5 genes involved in the metastasis of breast tumors to the lung

... bodies from the University of Navarra, the Applied Medical Research Centre (CIMA) and the University Hospital of the University of Navarra. Doctor alfonso Calvo, researcher in the area of Oncology at the CIMA, led the work with the special collaboration of Doctor Ignacio Gil Bazo, cancer specialist from ...

Chicago neuroscientist contributes to book on brains and baseball

...mall said, "it will take it 0.367 seconds to reach home plate--less than the time between successive heart beats. For elite batters, such as the Cubs' alfonso Soriano, such extraordinary skill can only be accomplished by figuring out what the pitcher will do before he even releases the ball." Small, an e...

The fate of an accused in a murder case to be decided

... The U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley told the jurors that Dru Sjodin, 22, struggled for her life and she left “unmistakable” proof indicating that alfonso Rodriguez Jr. was the man responsible for her death.// Rodriguez, 53, a convicted sex offender from Crookston, Minnesota, has pleaded not guilty...

Underlying relationship between Childhood insecurity and Eating Disorder

...late into an eating disorder in women, suggesting that the concept takes shape very early due to insecure attachment and separation anxiety. Dr. alfonso Troisi and colleagues have discussed this issue in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, saying that the childhood experiences mould the adult personali...

Alfonso in Medical Technology

Study Showed Lilly's GEMZAR(R) (gemcitabine HCl for injection) Improved Progression-Free Survival in Cervical Cancer Patients

...m of early screening and vaccination, oncologists have essentially been using the same treatment standard for the last decade," said study lead author alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D., Investigador de la Unidad de Investigacion Biomedica en Cancer, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia e Instituto de Invest...

K-State Researchers Bringing Expertise to Kansas City Symposium on Disease and National Security

...will discuss the future direction of zoonotic diseases caused by tick-transmitted rickettsiales. The symposium's keynote address will be delivered by alfonso Torres, associate dean for public policy at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, who will present "Globalization of Biosecurity C...

Alfonso in Biological News

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

...smooth, cylindrical jet of liquid emerging from an orifice spontaneously breaks up to form a train of spherical droplets. In the late 1990s, physicist alfonso Gan-Calvo of the University of Seville found a way to surround the streaming liquid with pressurized gas to make a co-flowing liquid sheath. By adjust...

Finalists announced in the Elsevier Grand Challenge

...nts" "This was an amazingly complementary collection of proposals on how to optimize the access to the information in the literature," added Judge alfonso Valencia, Director of the Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid. "I was truly impres...

Smithsonian scientists discover new bird species

...d nesting habits, and the species' complete habitat range are all things that still need research. "This discovery is very exciting for us," said alfonso Alonso, who directs the Biodiversity Program in Gabon. The opportunity to study areas the tropics of Gabon allows scientists to learn about the organi...

FEBS Letters Structured Digital Abstracts experiment

...uthors and readers. In the FEBS Letters special issue ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/4938-2008-994179991-684107 ) Florian Leitner and alfonso Valencia propose that a combination of human expertise and automatic text-mining systems can be used to create a first generation of electronically an...

UF's new owl butterfly species naming rights auctioned for $40,800

...ion the naming rights of the new species to raise money to support continued research on Mexican butterflies at the McGuire Center. Researchers at the alfonso L. Herrera Zoology Museum at the National Autonomous University of Mexico are partners in the process. John Calhoun, a research associate at the Fl...

UF to auction naming rights for new butterfly species online

...ion the naming rights of the new species to raise money to support continued research on Mexican butterflies at the McGuire Center. Researchers at the alfonso L. Herrera Zoology Museum at the National Autonomous University of Mexico are partners in the process. The naming rights to other animal species ha...

Alfonso in Biological Technology

Innovex to Promote PharmaMar's Yondelis(R) Cancer Treatment

...harmaMar in the United Kingdom and Germany, following its approval by the European Medicines Agency for use in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma. alfonso Casal, Commercial Director, PharmaMar, said: "This agreement with Innovex means we can optimize the launch of Yondelis across five Western European co...

Executives hear about promise, limits of RFID and nanotech

...during a session of the Wisconsin Innovates Conference. Although presenters alfonso Gutirrez, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's RFID Lab , and...ome consumers might be reluctant to embrace it due to privacy concerns. alfonso Gutirrez will explore RFID technology further at the Digital Healthcare Con...

RFID system aids hospital in tracking assets

... are issues related to the technology in terms of reliability, upgrading is not really standard, and you may have some issues working with RFID," said alfonso Gutierrez, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Consortium . "There are a lot of people-related issues. You need a lo...

RFID pilot project aims to improve blood banks

... area for the application is to prevent what is called a `mistransfusion error,' where somebody matched the patient with the wrong type of blood, said alfonso Gutierrez, director of the RFID Lab. Rodeina Davis, vice president-CIO of the Blood Center of Wisconsin, said blood products must remain within a c...