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April

April 20, 2010 - $2.8 Million Grant to Fund Hepatitis C Vaccine Research

April 20, 2010

Drexel University College of Medicine, in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Cheyney University, and Inovio Biomedical Corporation, will receive $2.8 million over four years from the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) competitive grant program funded through Pennsylvania’s share of the 2009-2010 national tobacco settlement.

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April 14, 2010 - Medical Students at Drexel Build Programs Addressing Health Disparities

April 14, 2010

Drexel University College of Medicine students Karen Li and Guensley Delva have been selected as 2010-11 Schweitzer Fellows. Each Albert Schweitzer Fellow partners with a community-based organization to identify an unmet health need, then designs and implements a program to meet those needs.

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Young People Are the Focus of Indoor Tanning Regulation

April 02, 2010

More than 30 million people tan indoors every year and nearly three quarters of them are women between ages 16 and 29, according to the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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Study Links Cancer Growth to Sugar-based Modification Found Naturally in the Body

April 01, 2010

Researchers at Drexel University College of Medicine have discovered that a certain type of sugar found naturally in the body is elevated in breast cancer cells and is critical for cancer growth and movement. When researchers reduced and normalized the levels of this sugar, they were able to slow the growth of the cancer cells and block invasion. The findings, published in the March 1 issue of Oncogene, represent a potential new therapeutic target for treating aggressive forms of breast cancer.

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2010 Coulter Translational Research Award Recipients

April 01, 2010

The following projects have been funded for the 2010 Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 2010 funding cycle:

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April

April 20, 2010 - $2.8 Million Grant to Fund Hepatitis C Vaccine Research

April 14, 2010 - Medical Students at Drexel Build Programs Addressing Health Disparities

Young People Are the Focus of Indoor Tanning Regulation

Study Links Cancer Growth to Sugar-based Modification Found Naturally in the Body

2010 Coulter Translational Research Award Recipients