The House plan to wipe out $50 million for cancer research programs, including one at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, cleared the budget committee today. That money comes from a portion of the additional $1 tax on a pack of cigarettes. The legislature passed the extra tax in 2009, with the justificiation that a portion of it would go for cancer research. Last year …

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Yale School of Medicine today announced the formation of a multi-year research collaboration focused on the discovery of novel cancer therapies. The research effort will initially span four years with an option to renew for up to ten years.

Researchers with the Texas A&M University System are getting a big boost; nearly $3 million for cancer research and prevention from the State of Texas. It’s a part of a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Cancer Research UK scientists in Oxford are trialling an experimental drug to treat lung cancer patients who have stopped responding to initial chemotherapy treatment. The trial will take place at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. The international early Phase II trial led by a team based at the Oxford Cancer Research Centre will trial the experimental drug called LY2181308 with advanced …

Scientists from the University of Essex have received a £205,000 grant from Cancer Research UK to investigate the early reversible changes in the genes associated with breast cancer development. Despite important advances in the research, treatment and early diagnosis of breast cancer, 12,500 women die every year from the disease in the UK. With over 44,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer …

Ridgewood resident and his family participate in walk for pancreatic cancer research.