Two Boston-area teams have assembled massive encyclopedias that predict the vulnerability of hundreds of different subtypes of cancer to dozens of drugs. Levi Garraway, HMS associate professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of the leaders of the work. Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is also quoted.
Ember Therapeutics Inc., a Boston start-up looking to build a portfolio of intellectual property related to brown fat, said yesterday that it has completed a licensing agreement with the Joslin Diabetes Center.
The brain is crisscrossed by neural highways that follow a simple, grid-like pattern, much like ordered city streets that intersect at right angles, according to newresearch. Van Wedeen, HMS associate professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the study.
