April 21, 2016
Pedal the Cause today presented $1,300,000 in grant funding to four San Diego research institutions to fund seven collaborative research projects. The check presentation was made by Pedal the Cause Executive Director Jay Indovino during a press conference at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego this morning. Continue reading “New grants from Pedal the Cause will advance cancer research”
August 26, 2014
High-school graduate Christina Lee has spent the last three and half months learning firsthand what it’s like to work at the lab bench in a major medical research institution. After graduating from Canyon Crest Academy in June of this year, Christina has spent this summer – before packing for college – interning in our NCI-designated Cancer Center with Jorge Moscat, PhD, and Maria Diaz-Meco, Ph.D., of the Cell Death and Survival Networks Program.
We asked Christina to share a little about herself and her time at the Institute—and she had plenty of fascinating things to say! Continue reading “The intern life: Meet Christina Lee”
August 1, 2014
Summer in Florida is the time of year when college students typically take a break from their textbooks and head off to the beaches to enjoy barbecues and sunshine. For Seminole State of Florida Honor Student and rising University of Central Florida junior Mitchell Thomas it also means participating in one-of-a-kind, hands-on lab research at Sanford-Burnham in Lake Nona.