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Yale Cancer Center faculty and trainees joined 22,000 cancer researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in cancer science and medicine earlier this week in Chicago for the 116th American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting. Dr. Patricia LoRusso, Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center and AACR President for 2024-25, shared her global view on cancer. “Cancer is a global disease—it spares no continent, no country. And each patient that gets the disease deserves treatment.”
- March 26, 2025
A new study from scientists at Yale School of Medicine has identified N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10), an enzyme highly expressed in brain metastasis, as a driver of brain metastasis. NAT10 primarily functions by adding acetyl groups to RNA molecules, regulating their function, stability or translation.
- March 20, 2024
Declines in the death rate for breast cancer have furthered overall progress in cancer mortality.
- February 28, 2024
Institutional support, federal funding, philanthropy and grants are the support that make cancer research possible.
- November 28, 2023
Yale Cancer Center researchers at Yale School of Medicine will present new research at the 46th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) from December 5 to 9.
- October 13, 2023
Qin Yan, PhD, Professor of Pathology, receives Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society of Investigative Pathology.
- August 03, 2023
A research team co-led by Dr. Katerina Politi found how mSWI/SNF complexes mediate resistance of lung adenocarcinomas to osimertinib and other tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
- August 31, 2022
A new study from Yale Cancer Center scientists has identified the chromatin regulator WDR5 as a possible new drug target in triple negative breast cancer.
- April 11, 2022
The American Society for Investigative Pathology has announced it will honor Qin Yan, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, with its 2023 Outstanding Investigator Award.
- March 02, 2022Source: Yale Daily News
Yale researchers found that the epigenetic regulator gene cat eye syndrome chromosome region candidate 2, or CECR2, is responsible for driving breast cancer metastasis –– making it exponentially more difficult to treat.