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Proteogenomics Provides New Insights into Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

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...


CPTAC Researchers Identify CPT1A as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Platinum-Refractory, High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Patients

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...


CPTAC Researchers Detect Fraud in Large-Scale Molecular Omics Datasets with Exceptional Accuracy Using Machine Learning

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...


CPTAC Researchers Develop a Novel, Targeted Mass Spectrometry Assay Panel that Enables Quantification of Immunomodulatory Proteins

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...


The Human Melanoma Proteome Atlas: Proteogenomic Researchers Map Protein Expression in Malignant Melanoma

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...


CPTAC Researchers Produce a Highly Annotated, Publicly Accessible Database of Genes Associated with Platinum Resistance in Cancer

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...


Memorandum of Understanding signed by NCI, FDA and HRSA to bring cancer diagnostic devices closer to patients, particularly members of medically underserved and geographically isolated communities

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...


Machine Learning Predicts Molecular Features of Endometrial Cancer with Exceptionally High Accuracy

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...


Proteogenomics Provides New Insights into Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

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...


A More Complete Molecular Picture of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Comes into View

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...


CPTAC Develops HER-2 Targeted Mass Spec Test (CLIA-certified)

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...


Study Finds Clues to Why Some Kidney Cancers Respond to Treatment While Others Do Not

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.


AML Microenvironment Catalyzes a Step-wise Evolution to Gilteritinib Resistance

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...


Multiplexed Assays to Monitor Your Oncogenic Growth Signaling Network

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...


Data Sharing Policies: From Bermuda, to Fort Lauderdale, to Amsterdam, to Sydney

Advancements in science and health care are made possible through widespread access to results from cutting-edge research, enabling scientists to use and build on this knowledge. A critically important aspect of the success of the Human Genome Project was its approach to immediately release pre-...


UniProt Expands Collaboration With CPTAC

UniProt, the leading online protein reference library, has expanded its collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC). In addition to searching for a protein-of-interest in UniProt, which includes cross-reference links to the NCI CPTAC...


CPTAC and FDA publish findings of a community effort to identify and correct mislabeled samples in multi-omics studies

In biomedical research, sample mislabeling or incorrect annotation has been a long-standing issue contributing to irreproducible results and invalid conclusions. These issues are particularly prevalent in large scale multi-omics studies, in which multiple different omics experiments are carried out...


CPTAC Assists with CLSI C64: Advancing Quantitative Protein/Peptide Mass Spectrometry Tests Towards Medical Laboratories

Protein/Peptide mass spectrometry (MS) is an enabling technology that is ideally suited for precision diagnostics, due to its quantitative measurements that can be multiplexed and its ability to directly identify proteoforms. As a result, interest on the widespread implementation of quantitative...


The Next Horizon in Precision Oncology

Where is cancer research headed in the next decade? Scientists and oncologists at the National Cancer Institute share their thoughts on the NEXT HORIZON IN PRECISION ONCOLOGY - proteogenomics.


CPTAC Helps to Identify New Roles for TGFβ in the DNA Damage Response

TGFβ is a cytokine with many, often paradoxical, roles in cancer biology. Acting as a tumor suppressor, TGFβ exerts negative control on epithelial cell proliferation - a function that tumor cells must overcome in order to progress to malignant disease. On the other hand, TGFβ also acts as a pro-...


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