Greehey CCRI Archives
KSAT12: $10+ million grant helps survivor now working at cancer institute that saved him (Houghton, Chen, Ignatius, Shiio, mention)
June 17, 2016SAN ANTONIO – The doctors, staff and patients at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute are celebrating its latest grant, a $10.9 million donation from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Clinical Cancer Research: Von Hippel-Lindau and Hereditary Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma Syndromes: Clinical Features, Genetics, and Surveillance Recommendations in Childhood
June 15, 2016Surya P Rednam 1, Ayelet Erez 2, Harriet Druker 3, Katherine A Janeway 4, Junne Kamihara 4, Wendy K Kohlmann 5, Katherine L Nathanson 6, Lisa J States 7, Gail E Tomlinson 8, Anita Villani 3, Stephan D Voss 9, Joshua D Schiffman 5 10, Jonathan D Wasserm …
Bioinformatics: A novel algorithm for calling mRNA m 6 A peaks by modeling biological variances in MeRIP-seq data
June 11, 2016Abstract Motivation: N 6 -methyl-adenosine (m 6 A) is the most prevalent mRNA methylation but the precise prediction of its mRNA location is important for understanding its function. A recent sequencing technology, known as Methylated RNA Immunoprecipi …
SA Business Journal: Cancer money to boost local pediatric research
June 3, 2016The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has awarded nearly $11 million to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in its latest funding round. That award includes $5 million to help establish the Texas Pediatric Pat …
Cell Reports: IGF2BP3 modulates the interaction of invasion-associated transcripts with RISC
May 31, 2016Hanane Ennajdaoui, Jonathan M Howard, Timothy Sterne-Weiler, Fereshteh Jahanbani, Doyle J Coyne, Philip J Uren, Marija Dargyte, Sol Katzman, Jolene M Draper, Andrew Wallace, Oscar Cazarez, Suzanne C Burns, Mei Qiao, Lindsay Hinck, Andrew D Smith, Masou …
UT Health SA Newsroom: CPRIT awards $10.9 million to Greehey institute for cancer research
May 20, 2016The Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at the Health Science Center garnered $10.9 million from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)―a larger amount than any other academic institution in the state. The Health Scien …
UT Health SA Newsroom: CPRIT awards $10.9 million to Greehey institute for cancer research
May 20, 2016The Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at the Health Science Center garnered $10.9 million from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)―a larger amount than any other academic institution in the state. The Health Scien …
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology: Identifying novel therapeutic agents using xenograft models of pediatric cancer
May 18, 2016Raushan T. Kurmasheva & Peter J. Houghton Abstract In the USA, the overall cure rate for all childhood cancers is seventy percent, and in many patients that ultimately fail curative therapy, initial responses to current multimodality treatments (su …
Molecular Cancer Therapy: The Bromodomain BET Inhibitor JQ1 Suppresses Tumor Angiogenesis in Models of Childhood Sarcoma
May 15, 2016Hemant K Bid 1, Doris A Phelps 1, Linlin Xaio 1, Denis C Guttridge 2, Jiayuh Lin 1, Cheryl London 3, Laurence H Baker 4, Xiaokui Mo 5, Peter J Houghton 6 Abstract The bromodomain and extra-terminal domain inhibitor JQ1 has marked antitumor activity aga …
Cancer & Zebrafish: In Vivo Imaging of Cancer in Zebrafish:
May 11, 2016Myron S. Ignatius, Madeline Hayes, David M. Langenau Abstract Zebrafish cancer models have greatly advanced our understanding of malignancy in humans. This is made possible due to the unique advantages of the zebrafish model including ex vivo developme …