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Dr. Jonathan Victor is part of a team of researchers that last fall received a $6.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at uncovering the universal algorithms at work in the nervous system when animals use olfaction to navigate. An understanding of this neural circuitry could shed light on the human brain — and spur the development of technology to replicate the services that animals provide, thus keeping highly trained and often valuable animals out of dangerous...

The 6th annual SPARC Jr. conference took place on July 25 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium. SPARC, which stands for Achieving Successful and Productive Academic Research Careers, was launched in 2010 in direct response to the National Institute of Health’s call for a vigilant and expedient response to the underrepresentation of women and racial/ethnic minority investigators in academic research.

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Please visit http://chembio.triiprograms.org/symposium to register.

Jacob Litke & Michaelyn Lux
Co-Chairs
12th Annual TPCB Symposium

Scientists in the lab of Lewis Cantley, Ph.D., director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, found that a little gene with a long name – type 2 phosphatidylinositol-5-phosphate 4-kinase gamma (PIP4K2C) and its associated protein PI5P4Kγ- plays a role in the regulation of the immune system.

“This suggests that drugs that inhibit PIP4K2C function could be useful to enhance cancer immunotherapy,” said first author Hyeseok Shim,...