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Helping Cancer Researchers Jump the Last Hurdles Before Clinical Trials
Published on: February 3, 2020
The American Cancer Society Mission Boost grant helps rescue science that sometimes falls into the valley of death, where promising research comes to an abrupt end because it otherwise can’t get the funding it needs to cross the bridge between discovery and helping patients.
New Device Aims to Use Light to Predict How Well Chemotherapy Treats Breast Cancer
Published on: October 23, 2017
Darren Roblyer, PhD, and his research team at Boston University use optical imaging, specifically diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS), to study how well chemotherapy works before surgery in women with early stage breast cancer. Their work is supported by a grant from the American Cancer Society.
