Evolution’s ancient remedies could offer new starting points for scientists designing treatments that supplement or replace antibiotics that no longer work, said Matt Barber, senior author of the paper and evolutionary biologist at the UO College of Arts and Sciences. 

USC researchers have received two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $7.5 million to investigate whether exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called “forever chemicals,” may increase the risk of liver and endometrial cancers. The studies will examine pre-diagnostic blood samples and laboratory models to identify how PFAS may contribute to cancer development and to explore how factors such as neighborhood, income and food access may influence exposure and risk.

The immune system possesses legions of T cells that, if they were primed, could hunt down and destroy tumors. Now, a UC San Francisco team has invented a way to do this by combining immune cells that are grown in the lab with samples from a patient’s tumor. 

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) neurosurgeon Hai Sun, MD, PhD, has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a groundbreaking study aimed at improving the accuracy of pre-surgical mapping and planning for patients who seek surgery as a treatment option for epilepsy. RWJUH is a RWJBarnabas Health facility.