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CPRIT awards newly integrated UT San Antonio to further its mission to combat cancers across South Texas

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
Grant and Award Announcement

The newly integrated University of Texas at San Antonio and its academic health center, UT Health San Antonio, recently received over $2.7 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to help develop the next generation of cancer researchers and focus on Ewing sarcoma, AI in oncology and the obesity-endometrial cancer risk.

UCLA researchers awarded $3.2 million NIH grant to develop AI tool for more personalized liver cancer treatment

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Jason Chiang and Dr. Kyung Sung of the department of radiological sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced imaging platform designed to improve yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization planning for patients with liver cancer.

Dr. Mina Sedrak selected to co-lead national committee advancing cancer care for older adults

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Mina Sedrak, director of the UCLA Center for Cancer and Aging and director of Cancer Control and Survivorship Research at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been selected to serve as co-chair of the Cancer in the Older Adult Committee for The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.

Protein in tumor microenvironment found to promote colorectal cancer growth and immune evasion

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY – June 2, 2026 – A new research paper was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on May 20, 2026, titled “Microenvironmental CTHRC1 has a pro-tumorigenic role in colorectal cancer.”

Journal: Oncotarget

6G networks will improve network utilization

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Telemedicine, continuous monitoring, and remote procedures are becoming increasingly important in medicine. For these to operate seamlessly in everyday clinical practice, data must be transmitted quickly, reliably, and without interruption. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital have investigated how future 6G networks can manage computing power and data transmission in such a way that up to 40 percent more applications can be run simultaneously.

Researchers develop adaptive electric vehicle charging method to reduce battery degradation

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have developed an adaptive charging strategy for lithium-ion batteries that could help Electric Vehicles (EVs) charge efficiently while reducing a major cause of battery degradation known as lithium plating. Published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Energy Storage, the study introduces a self-adjusting charging framework that dynamically protects batteries from internal degradation while optimising charging efficiency and time across varying temperature and health conditions.

Journal: Journal of Energy Storage
Funder: Anusandhan National Research Foundation, Government of India

Statin use and survival in early breast cancer according to different intrinsic subtypes

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this cohort study of patients with early breast cancer, prediagnostic statin use was not associated with higher survival; however, postdiagnostic statin use was associated with lower all-cause and breast cancer–specific mortality among patients with hormone receptor–positive intrinsic subtypes. These findings suggest that statin therapy may improve survival of patients with early hormone receptor–positive subtypes.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Residential and transplant center neighborhood segregation and live donor liver transplant

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this national cohort study, living in or being wait-listed at transplant centers in high-segregation neighborhoods was associated with lower likelihood of live donor liver transplant (LDLT) access and candidates living in high-segregation neighborhoods with a larger racial and ethnic minority population compared with a larger white population had lower likelihood of LDLT. Investing in high-segregation neighborhoods to address these structural disadvantages may help improve equity in LDLT access.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

T cells may be key to stopping measles virus—and its deadly relatives

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered how T cells target paramyxoviruses, a viral family that includes measles virus and Nipah virus.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Funder: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations