Month: September 2022
-
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Allison Cheney
Allison Cheney, Graduate Student September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study and how they hope their research will help in the fight against childhood cancer. What type of cancer…
-
New program will mentor and train students underrepresented in genomics research
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute will partner with California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPRRP) Campus to mentor and provide genomics research experience for students from these two hispanic-serving institutions…
-
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Molly McCabe
“Cancer has impacted me deeply. I lost my mother to melanoma when I was 13 years old, and my now-14-year-old brother is 10 years Medulloblastoma free. Working for the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, Olena Vaske, and Anouk van den Bout has allowed me to understand the disease further, and made me feel like I am…
-
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Krizia Chambers
Krizia Chambers, Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study and how they hope their research will help in the fight against childhood cancer. …
-
Large Scientific Collaborations Aim to Complete Human Genome
Jordan Eizenga is a postdoc at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and writes about the shortcomings of the current human genome reference and what the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium is doing to fix them. Read in The Scientist
-
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Yvonne Vasquez
“My lab studies rare cancers that occur in kids and young adults. Our lab’s goal is to learn more about pediatric cancers and identify more effective and less toxic treatments for patients.”