Nobel Prize, Clinical Trials and More…

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Surfing the web, I found these stories of interest:

    • The National Cancer Institute released a video on Patient Safety in Clinical Trials:

      • According to ScienceDaily, the University of Virginia School of Medicine has administered the first dose of an experimental immunotherapy for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The clinical trial participant was a 14 year old patient.
      • As reported in the New York Times, American Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks.

 

 

Library Sponsored Classes at IT EXPO 2017

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MSK’S IT EXPO 2017 will be October 30 and 31. Among this year’s training options for staff, the MSK Library will be offering the following four classes:

  1. Analyzing and Visualizing Research Impact
    (Tuesday, October 31 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, RRL-102)

Instructor:  Antonio DeRosa

Course Description: Learn which resources to leverage for analyzing and visualizing the impact of a researcher’s work, specifically focusing on published papers indexed in major databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Synapse). Also become familiar with why you might want to think about visualizing and understanding published data for the purposes of promotion, presentation, publishing, and general understanding of a researcher’s impact on academia or society and the scientific community.

  1. Searching PubMed Effectively
    (Monday, October 30 from 11:00 am to Noon, RRL-102)

Instructor: Marisol Hernandez

Course Description: This workshop will help you gain knowledge to effectively search PubMed utilizing keywords and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Also covered are the built-in filter options, as well as, accessing full-text articles from the MSK Library’s ejournal collection. Continue reading →