MSKCC in the News: February 9 – February 23

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  • ScienceInsider reported on a petition drafted by Robert Benezra at MSKCC that urges NIH to reconsider grant application rules that limits the number of times an applicant can submit a revised version of a grant application only once instead of twice.
  • Pharmaceutical Business Review recently announced a Phase 2 clinical trial sponsored by The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) evaluating the effectiveness of ADI-PEG 20 in the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that will take place at MSKCC and Duke University Medical Center.
  • Dr. Scher of MSKCC announced at the fourth annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that an investigational drug called abiraterone acetate may help men with hard to treat prostate cancer.

    • Fifth Place: Highly Cited MSK Publication from 2010

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    Based on a SCOPUS search conducted in late January 2011, looking for the top 15 highly cited MSK Publications, the following reference was cited 53 times and is ranked in fifth place. View the journal or search for the specific reference at the journal’s home page by clicking on the journal title below. For additional information about cited reference searching, contact Reference Services.

    • Poulikakos PI, Zhang C, Bollag G, Shokat KM, Rosen N. RAF inhibitors transactivate RAF dimers and ERK signalling in cells with wild-type BRAF. Nature. 2010;464(7287):427-430.

    Blog Buzz: February 12 – 18

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    Roundup of interesting news from the medical library, oncology, life sciences and informatics blogosphere:

    • iPad radiology app wins FDA approval in breakthrough for mobile imaging.
    • New trends in public/private drug development partnerships received some press this week: Facultyof1000 as well as open data advocate John Wilbanks both weighed in on the findings of a New England Journal of Medicine article on the topic.
    • Elsevier has developed a new SciVerse app for oncologists called My Oncology Articles. “My Oncology Articles application tracks and displays articles from Elsevier’s 20+ leading oncology journals on a bi-weekly basis.” via MDAnderson Cancer Center Library’s NewsBytes.
    • MassGenomics posted about a new study from the Sanger Institute that documented a phenomenon called chromothripsis, in which hundreds of cancer-causing chromosomal rearrangements occur in a one-time cellular crisis, rather than progressively over time.
    • The Dirty Little Secrets of Search (and why you might want to Ask a Librarian to help you find the most current and evidence-based research).