BETHESDA, Maryland, Oct. 9 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's Center for Cancer Research issued the following news: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma are blood cancers that affect certain white blood cells. A clinical trial led by Jennifer N. Brudno, M.D., Associate Research Physician in the Surgery Branch, is researching CAR T-cell therapy for these cancers. The trial will take place at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and there is no cost   more

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Ian Hawkins, a Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) materials engineering supervisor, was recently accepted into the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Fellow Program coordinated by Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division's (NAWCAD) during an award ceremony held at NAVAIR headquarters in Pawtuxet River, MD. "This award recognizes the technical accomplishments ov  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Oct. 9 -- The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued the following agency statement on Oct. 7, 2024: * * * A new solution to an old problem makes breath analysis in real time possible * * * The breath we exhale can tell us a lot about our respiratory and metabolic health - like whether we have asthma or if we might be developing kidney disease or need to better manage a case of COPD. But the breath is famously hard to study, especi  more

FREDERICK, Maryland, Oct. 9 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's National Laboratory for Cancer Research issued the following news: By Mary Ellen Hackett An investigational treatment co-discovered by RAS Initiative scientists at the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL) is now being tested in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer driven by mutant KRAS G12C. BBO-8520 is being evaluated in a Phase1a/1b clinical trial, the ONKORAS-101 Study (https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/s  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, Eric Smith, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA), visited the PROPEL Tech Hub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Biden-Harris Administration, through the EDA, designated the PROPEL Tech Hub as a Tech Hub in October 2023. PROPEL is a consortium led by the Ben Franklin Technology  more