Gladstone's Shinya Yamanaka Wins Lasker Award
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and Kyoto University, has won the 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discovery of a method of reprogramming adult skin cells to become embryonic-like stem cells. Yamanaka, who is the L.K.Whittier Investigator in Stem Cell Biology at Gladstone, and professor [...]
Also In Global Health News: Malawi HIV/AIDS Fight; Cancer In Developing World
Malawi Gets $30M World Bank Grant For HIV/AIDS Tim Gilbo, the World Bank’s director in Malawi, announced on Tuesday that the organization will grant the country $30 million, which will be used to “increase access to prevention, treatment and mitigation services with a focus on behavioural change,” Source:Also In Global Health News: Malawi HIV/AIDS Fight; [...]
UCSF Research Shows Private Umbilical Cord Banking Is Not Cost-Effective
Private cord blood banking is not cost-effective because it costs an additional $1,374,246 per life-year gained, according to a new analysis by UCSF researchers. The research team also concluded that private cord blood banking is cost-effective only for families with a child with a very high likelihood of needing a stem cell transplant. Source:UCSF Research [...]
New Cancer Research Priorities Recommended By Expert
Cancer research is too focused on new drug development, while not enough money and effort is being devoted to pursuing important advances in knowledge likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades, a leading research policy expert says, adding that a major shift in research priorities will be [...]
2009 Lasker Awards Recognize Promise Of Stem Cells — Global Market Could Top $700 Million
The recipients of The 2009 Lasker Awards, represent the dramatic advances achieved in biotechnology research that have led to a revolutionary cancer treatment and the tremendous promise of stem cell therapy for regenerative medicine. Such advances portend a potential $700 million global market for new therapies within less than five years, according to Genetic Engineering [...]
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