cancer

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New potential treatment breakthrough for advanced brain cancer

Kostas
[:el] Doctors at UCLA, Cleveland Clinic, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and additional institutions have achieved a milestone in the development of a treatment for people with recurrent glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, by successfully demonstrating a...
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Greek researcher develops new method for cancer immunotherapy

Kostas
[:el] Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden led by a Greek researcher, have generated antibodies that reprogramme a type of macrophage cell in the tumour, making the immune system better able to recognise and kill tumour cells. The study, which is published in the journal...
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Develops vaccines for AIDS and cancer

Kostas
[:el] George Pavlakis is the Senior Investigator and the Head of Human Retrovirus Section at the National Cancer Institute in US. The Human Retrovirus Section designs, develops and tests vaccines and immunotherapies for AIDS and cancer. Dr. Pavlakis has focused his research on the biology and pathogenesis...
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Greek scientists discovered new genes that cause skin cancer

Kostas
[:el] Geneticists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland and NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered new genes responsible for skin cancer, a breakthrough that could lead in personalised treatments for the patients. The research is led by a Greek scientist. The skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma...
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Researching anti-cancer therapeutics

Kostas
[:el] Dr. George Demetri is a Greek-American Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, director of the Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and executive director for Clinical and Translational...
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Greek researcher hits cancer with heat-triggered ‘grenades’

Kostas
[:el] Scientists of the Nanomedicine Lab in Manchester led by the Greek researcher, Kostas Kostarelos, have designed microscopic “grenades” that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours. The team presented its findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference. They plan to use liposomes – tiny...
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The biophysicist who tries to make cancer detection a lot easier

Kostas
[:el] Irene Georgakoudi is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. She has been working on the use of lasers for therapeutic and diagnostic applications since her undergraduate years. She is developing a new optical technique that may, one day, make screening for...

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