Brain tumors are among the most dreaded of cancers, and they were among the first cancers that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) selected for “genomic profiling” – an exercise that reveals genetic or molecular alterations that promote or drive the cancer

Medulloblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor that primarily affects children under the age of ten, is a cancer that called out for genetic analysis

By Robert Levy

The poise and self-assurance of the presenters at a research symposium at Dana-Farber made it easy to forget they are students in high school and college

The NIH continues to recognize DF/HCC as a leader in cancer research by awarding funding to a number of our research initiatives

The mission of the Pathology Specimen Locator Core is to facilitate Cancer Center member access to tissue

The Tissue Microarray and Imaging (TMI) Core is dedicated to the construction and evaluation of high quality TMAs for cancer research

Seventeen individuals have recently joined DF/HCC