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Postdoc Job Opening: Cancer & Stem Cell Epigenomics Knoepfler Lab

July 5, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

An NIH and foundation-funded postdoctoral fellow position in the Knoepfler Lab at UC Davis School of Medicine is open. The focus of research will be on cancer and stem cell epigenomics. Studies will include functional genomics assays such s ChIP-Seq, chromatin configuration, CRISPR genetics work, and cell biological research. Qualifications: Applicants must have a PhD, […]

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Are glioma stem cells a path to better outcomes?

June 25, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Glioblastoma and other related malignant glioma tumors including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) are some of the most devastating of all human cancers, and glioma stem cells may contribute to the lethality. You can see an image of a glioma (the white area in the brain scan) from Wikipedia above. These brain tumors usually kill

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How Baldness Helps Toward a Cure for Children’s Cancer: St. Baldrick’s

March 17, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day and let me mention something else: St. Baldrick’s. How might you celebrate? At least in part you might consider supporting St. Baldrick’s, which is a wonderful foundation that supports research on children’s cancer. Every year they have a very cool event where supporters of the organization get their heads shaved to raise

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How baldness can cure kid’s cancer: St. Baldrick’s Foundation

February 28, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

St. Baldrick’s is the top children’s cancer foundation and does amazing work for kids with cancer and their families. Their top fundraising event is a head-shaving program where people make pledges in support of a “shavee” who gets their head shaved in solidarity with kids with cancer who often lose their hair due to treatment.

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Updated: Do Vulcans Get Prostate Cancer and get surgery for it?

July 18, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

It’s been a big couple months of headlines in the news for prostate cancer. I’m a prostate cancer survivor and cancer biologist so I spend probably more than my share of time thinking about prostate cancer and from a number of angles. A few days ago I got a test result suggesting I’m still in long-term

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New medulloblastoma paper suggests novel avenues to treat this childhood cancer

June 26, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Medulloblastoma is the most common pediatric brain tumor. However, treatments for children who are diagnosed with so-called medullos have not evolved much over the years and are largely similar to treatments given to adults for other brain tumors. One frequent event in certain medullos is amplification of two members of the MYC family of oncogenes

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Prostate cancer and PSA tests: perspectives of a young survivor

April 6, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

How has prostate cancer changed my life? On Sunday I was working on grading some papers before dinner when up popped a “you’ve got mail” kind of message. The email said that my PSA (the blood test for prostate cancer) test results were ready. Yay! I was diagnosed with a serious prostate cancer about 28 months

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How baldness can prevent kids cancer?

March 13, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

It seems like a lot of my blogs have the word “baldness” in them, huh? The latest post today is on the apparent inverse correlation between baldness and pediatric cancer, not using stem cells to try to treat baldness. You might be scratching your head (bald or not) at this point. The connection is

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Make a difference for kids through St. Baldrick’s

March 1, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

What is St. Baldrick’s? Thousands of kids in America get cancer each year and need our help. One of the best organizations in the world, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, is dedicated to helping these kids. This is a wonderful foundation! St. Baldrick’s describes itself as “a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find

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Komen Foundation Betrays Women

February 1, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

The Susan G. Komen Foundation has done so much good over the years in its fight against breast cancer that it is particularly disturbing to learn that they have betrayed women. Betray is a strong word and I don’t use it lightly, but I think it is appropriate in this case. To me the pink

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