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Young Scientist Foundation alum, Kareem King, who worked in the DiFeo Lab at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has been accepted to Harvard University on a full academic scholarship. Kareem was valedictorian of his school with a 4.6 grade point average, played violin for the school’s orchestra, is […]

Young Scientist Foundation alum, Ava Thomas, receives the Gilmour Academy Catalyst Publication Award for her paper Direct Aactivation Of PP2A For The Treatment Of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor–Resistent Lung Adenocarcinoma To read the full paper click here.

Researchers found that lung cancer tumors were prevented from developing in mice using a novel small molecule that directly activates a tumor suppressor protein, according to an article published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Cells are constantly turning proteins on and off via molecular switches, phosphate molecules, that have become common drug […]

Teaching, learning, and improving medical care for cancer patients have motivated Analisa DiFeo, PhD, and Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, for their entire careers. The husband-wife-team are forging a trail of discovery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Narla is a both a clinician oncologist and an expert in […]

Glen de Vries, co-founder of Medidata Solutions and Vice Chair of The Young Scientist Foundation, was featured on the podcast show Human Proof of Concept. Glen originally started Medidata in 1999 in his 5th floor walkup and today the company serves nearly 3 million patients through their clinical cloud platform. […]

Analisa DiFeo, Vice President of the Young Scientist Foundation and Norma C. and Albert I. Geller Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research the Division of General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, served as a Sparks Speaker at the Annual Conference for Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) at St. Louis. Dr. […]