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The New Initiative to Study the Glycobiology of Cancer |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND MEDICINE |
| Author: National Institutes of Health News |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 433 Words, 3,090 Characters |
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is funding a new $15.5 million, five-year initiative to discover, develop, and clinically validate cancer biomarkers by targeting the carbohydrate (glycan) part of a molecule. Biomarkers are substances sometimes found in th...
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...astava, Ph.D., chief of the Biomarkers Research Group in NCI’s Division of Cancer Prevention. “We believe this new Alliance of Glycobiologists will accelerate the pace of biomarker development and discovery.” The project is headed by Karl Krueger, Ph.D., a program director in the Biomarkers Research Group in NCI’s Division of Cancer Prevention.
Copyright © 2007 National Institutes of Health
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