All Posts: cancer
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- News Release
Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use
WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely - known as conditional reprogramming - has been…
February 23, 2015
- News Release
Center for Cellular Reprogramming Created To Drive Laboratory Breakthrough
Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, a global center of excellence whose mission is to promote intra- and…
December 12, 2013
- GUMC Stories
HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm
(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of the…
July 10, 2013
- GUMC Stories
New Center Serves as Research Hub
(March 20, 2013) — It quickly became known as the “Georgetown method.” A revolutionary way of growing both tumor and normal cells in order to one day truly personalize therapy…
March 20, 2013
- GUMC Stories
Keeping Cells Alive in the Lab
(January 19, 2012) — There is a lot of talk about personalized cancer treatment in medicine these days. One idea is to subject a tumor to different therapies to find the cocktail…
January 19, 2012