Could a Cancer Protein Be at the Heart of Cardiac Scarring and Disease?
Research supported by the UR CTSI suggests that a tumor suppressor protein may play an important role in a heart rhythm disease and in cardiac scarring.
UR CTSI Funds Investigation of Novel Drug Targeting Cancer Microenvironment
A team of researchers at the Wilmot Cancer Institute hopes to lay the foundation for a novel cancer therapy that would target the cancer microenvironment with funding from a UR CTSI Incubator Award.
UR CTSI Incubator Project Leads to NEW Brain Aging Center at URMC
Feng Vankee Lin, Ph.D., R.N., lead investigator of the new Network for Emotional Well-Being Brain Aging Research Center credits a 2017 UR CTSI Incubator grant for helping lay the foundation for the new center.
Blood Cancer Research Moves from Lab to Clinic with UR CTSI Help
With the help of a UR CTSI Incubator Award, Wilmot Cancer Institute researcher Laura Calvi, M.D, has translated discoveries from the lab to a clinical trial that has begun to help patients with blood cancer.
UR CTSI Incubator Project on Social Ties and Aging Leads to $3.6M NIH Grant
Recipients of the 2017 UR CTSI Incubator Award have just received a program gran from the NIH to further their work on social connectedness among older adults. The Incubator project laid the foundation for the new grant, which focuses on older adult caregivers of individuals with dementia.