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Jul 22, 2016

Sanford Burnham Researchers ID More Than 100 Genetic Regions Affecting Immune Response to Cancer

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The researchers identified 122 potential immune response drivers that could serve as targets for drug research efforts.

Jun 24, 2015

Sanford-Burnham Receives $100M Donation, Changes Name

The money was provided by real estate developer and philanthropist Conrad Prebys and will be used to accelerate the delivery of new treatments to improve human health.

May 28, 2015

Takeda Partners with Sanford-Burnham on Heart Failure Research

The partners will screen for molecules that could revive metabolic activity in heart tissue damaged by cardiovascular disease or failure.

Oct 15, 2014

Researchers Explore Using Long Non-coding RNAs as Non-invasive Marker for Prostate Cancer Testing

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Originally published Oct. 9.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA), molecules previously thought to play no role in cellular or disease development, may provide researchers a new avenue for developing a non-invasive diagnostic for prostate cancer.

May 12, 2014

Broad Institute Lays off 27 Amid Ending of NIH Program, Shift in Therapeutics Development Focus

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Broad Institute confirmed that it is laying off 27 employees as the National Institutes of Health stopped funding for a program, and the institute separately decided to refocus its therapeutic development efforts.

Mar 13, 2014

Genomics in the Journals

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – While variants in the gene FTO have previously been associated with a propensity toward obesity, the University of Chicago's Marcelo Nóbrega and colleagues reported in Nature this week that those obesity-linked variants in FTO actually

Nov 12, 2013

USAF Funds Sanford-Burnham Chemical Screening Initiative

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sanford-Burhnam Medical research Institute said today it has received a grant from the US Department of the Air Force to use cell-based assays to study the potential toxicity of large collections of chemicals.

Aug 13, 2013

Sanford-Burnham, Pfizer Team in Hunt for Insulin Resistance Targets

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute said today that its investigators will collaborate with Pfizer to identify therapeutic targets for use in preventing and treating complications related to obesity and diabetes.

May 22, 2013

Congenital Glycosylation Disorder Study Finds Mosaicism Confounds Diagnosis by Exome Sequencing

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In attempting to diagnose a set of congenital disorders of glycosylation, a team from Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute has highlighted some important pitfalls of using sequencing results to inform clinical diagnosis, specifically, the potential of somatic mosaicism to c

Jan 03, 2013

Sanford-Burnham, Intrexon Strike iPSC Collaboration

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Intrexon have struck a collaboration focused on developing new induced pluripotent stem cell technologies for research purposes, the institute said today.

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