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Research and Development
Research and Development: innovative activities performed by corporations or governments for the creation, discovery and advancement of services and products.
FEB 01, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Abstract:
•General background, diagnostic and bio-marker implications of exosomes research
•Current solutions to purifying and identifying exosomes rapidly and accurately
•R...
NOV 20, 2013 | 10:00 AM
2013 has proven to be a year of paradigmatic shifts in molecular diagnostics reimbursement policy. In this session, we will review and analyze these key policy and payment developments and di...
NOV 20, 2013 | 8:00 AM
As the scientific evidence base for pharmacogenetics continues to expand, the use of such information in clinical management and drug development will be in demand.
The FDA advises that the...
NOV 08, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The NCI's Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) is a comprehensive genomic characterization initiative to determine the molecular changes that drive th...
OCT 23, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Molecular chaperones help nascent polypeptides fold correctly and multimeric protein complexes assemble productively, while minimizing the danger of aggregation in the protein-rich intracellu...
OCT 17, 2013 | 3:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer, the contribution to risk of these variants is small, rende...
OCT 17, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Pancreatic cancer is the 4th most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Due to the aggressive nature of this cancer and the lack of biomarkers for early detection, the incidence...
OCT 17, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spit...
OCT 17, 2013 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
OCT 17, 2013 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Curative therapy for metastatic disease in solid malignancies remains frustratingly elusive due to the long recognized problem of tumor cell heterogeneity and emergence of treatment resistant...
OCT 17, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Prostate cancer epithelial cells depend on androgens for their survival. Because of this dependence, androgen deprivation therapy is the major treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Such ther...
OCT 17, 2013 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Cancer metastases develop when tumor cells known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed from a tumor, circulate through the blood stream and colonize a distant tissue. The number of CTCs...
OCT 17, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Many drugs currently used for anti-cancer therapy demonstrate significant inter-individual variability that cannot be normalized using body weight or body surface area. There is an increasing...
OCT 17, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Developments in DNA sequencing technology have provided a unique opportunity for diagnosis and discovery of genetic alterations for rare diseases. Partnering with 20 academic centers in the U...
OCT 17, 2013 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Recent data have confirmed the ability of cardiac troponin (cTn) measurements to identify those who are developing cardiotoxicity in response to potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapeutic agen...
OCT 17, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
OCT 17, 2013 | 7:00 AM
RNA-Seq allows the simultaneous observation of gene expression levels, mutations in the coding sequences, splice variants and gene fusions, which are especially important in cancer studies. A...
OCT 17, 2013 | 6:00 AM
The widespread adoption of precision medicine in oncology requires: a compendium of therapies targeting the genetic vulnerabilities of cancer; the diagnostic tools capable of generating a pr...
OCT 16, 2013 | 3:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While Melanoma is very curable and treatable when detected early, late stage melanoma has had a very poor outcome. In 2013, it is estimated that over 80,000 patients in the US will develop me...
OCT 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most significant causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In about 6-7% of NSCLC, rearrangements involving the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The remarkable diversity we see between different cell types in the human body is governed by the specificity attained through transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory programs. Cancer is a...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the primary treatment modality for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), treatment is uniformly marked by progression to castration-...
OCT 23, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Molecular chaperones help nascent polypeptides fold correctly and multimeric protein complexes assemble productively, while minimizing the danger of aggregation in the protein-rich intracellu...