ALA Midwinter Meeting Highlights

Abstracts of the Twenty-sixth Annual Midwinter Research Meeting

S OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MIDWINTER RESEARCH MEETING

Meeting Highlights: Genome Informatics

We bring you the highlights of the second Joint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Wellcome Trust 'Genome Informatics' Conference, organized by Ewan Birney, Suzanna Lewis and Lincoln Stein. There were sessions on in silico data discovery, comparative genomics, annotation pipelines, functional genomics and integrative biology. The conference included a keynote address by Sydney Brenner, who was a...

A short impression of the exhibition of the ALA Midwinter Meeting 2008, which was held 11-15 January 2008 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Meeting Report Cancer Immunotherapy Highlights from the 2014 ASCO Meeting

The promise of cancer immunotherapy was validated officially in March 2011 when the FDA approved Yervoy (ipilimumab; Bristol-Myers Squibb) for the treatment of unresectable ormetastatic melanoma. The approval was based on results of a randomized, double-blind clinical trial establishing that ipilimumab (a humanized antiCTLA-4 monoclonal antibody) treatment extended the overall survival of patie...

Highlights and prizes of an international meeting.

A short description selected from the presentations which had been awarded prizes in the 4th International Meeting of Nuclear Medicine, of the Hellenic Society of Nuclear Medicine, in Thessaloniki, Greece, is as follows: Professor L.G. Strauss from Heidelberg received the first prize for his original paper under the title: "Modulation of FDG kinetics in tumors by gene expression". He studied 25...