This month, the Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research (OCCPR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has reaffirmed its commitment to furthering proteogenomics research by announcing the next round of Proteome Characterization Center (PCC; RFA-CA-21...
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News and Announcements
June 1, 2022
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health is pleased to announce the renewal of three separate collaborations with Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK), affirming the two countries’ commitment to international cancer research and care, expanding efforts in the emerging...
May 26, 2022
Protein complexes are a fundamental component of physiological and pathological processes. Despite organisms having a limited number of genes and therefore a finite number of proteins at their disposal, the number of possible combinations amongst these proteins is essentially inexhaustible; myriad...
May 12, 2022
The following is the transcript of an interview conducted to highlight promising undergraduate student researcher Aniket Dagar from University of Michigan. Aniket was recently awarded a meritorious poster award for the poster he presented at the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)...
April 26, 2022
Glycosylation is critical for a wide range of biological processes and is implicated in numerous diseases. Analysis of the glycoproteome has the potential to reveal a wealth of clinical insights, but the heterogeneity of glycosylation makes this analysis difficult. Because of the analytical...
April 7, 2022
Protein phosphorylation dysregulation has been recognized as a key feature of several diseases, especially cancer. In recent years, phosphoproteomic research has revealed novel, effective biomarkers and drug targets for disease prognosis and treatment. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based...
March 15, 2022
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is the second-most common primary liver tumor and has a low 5-year survival rate of 15%. Treatment of iCCA is particularly difficult due to its markedly aggressive progression, late symptom presentation, and early metastasis. In order to improve...
March 2, 2022
At present, typical treatment for patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is surgical debulking coupled with platinum-based chemotherapy. Despite the majority of HGSOCs being sensitive to platinum-based therapy initially, most become resistant over the course of treatment. The...
January 27, 2022
Modern computational tools for data collection and analysis have revolutionized how scientists are able to research and respond to problems. While the growing number of large, public data sets is a great boon for researchers, the accessibility of these resources can introduce quality and security...
January 11, 2022
Immunotherapies are revolutionizing modern cancer care, but at present, many technologies do not accurately quantify the myriad soluble proteins in the tumor microenvironment which impact immunity. This, in turn, contributes to the pervasiveness of patient resistance and immune-related adverse events...
December 9, 2021
Earlier this year, a team from the European Cancer Moonshot Lund Center at Lund University published proteomics and corresponding proteogenomic integration studies for malignant melanomas (MM). The twin publications represent an effort to map protein...
October 29, 2021
According to U.S. National Cancer Institute estimates, approximately 10–20% of all cancer patients will receive a platinum drug over the course of their treatment. Cisplatin, the first platinum-based anti-cancer therapy, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for...
October 7, 2021
On Friday, September 17, 2021, leadership from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support solutions for early cancer detection and diagnosis to improve patient...
September 24, 2021
The CPTAC research group led by Dr. David Fenyö at NYU Langone Medical Center has demonstrated the feasibility of a machine learning image processing tool designed to assist pathologists classifying endometrial cancer. Their customized multi-resolution deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model...
September 17, 2021
Despite advances in the efficacy and specificity of cancer treatments over the last decade, pancreatic cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The most common type of pancreatic tumor, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), has distinctly poor patient outcomes due to its...
August 5, 2021
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-associated death in the United States and worldwide. Patients with a subtype called lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) have benefited from the development of new targeted medicines, but the search for effective new therapies for another subtype called lung...
July 6, 2021
In the era of precision medicine, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is one of the important predictive and prognostic biomarkers in breast cancer. At present, conventional HER2-targeting therapies improve outcomes for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, defined as tumors having...
June 30, 2021
Kidney cancer is the eighth most diagnosed cancer for both men and women in the United States, and about 76,000 new cases and nearly 14,000 deaths are expected in 2021. It is a category that includes many different kinds of cancer and is dominated by renal cell carcinoma.
June 24, 2021
Adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. It is characterized by an aberrant proliferation of immature myeloblasts that infiltrate the bone marrow and impair normal hematopoiesis. AML is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults and usually worsens quickly if...
June 22, 2021
In the age of personalized cancer therapy, genetic sequencing technologies allow clinicians to rapidly pinpoint mutations likely involved in driving patient-specific tumorigenesis and disease progression. These oncogenic mutations lead to the aberrant activation of signaling pathways involved in...