UA Spin-Off to Test Cancer-Preventing Drug Combination

Posted On Sunday, May 5, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
UA Spin-Off to Test Cancer-Preventing Drug Combination Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or CPP, has helped launch a phase-III clinical trial to test the efficacy of a combination drug that has shown promise of preventing colon cancer. CPP was founded in 2008 to apply decades' worth of systematic, basic research led by University of Arizona professor emeritus Eugene ...

Medical School Researchers Obtain $6 Million to Investigate Heart Disease

Posted On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 By . Under HAWAII  Tags: , , ,   
Everyone knows someone who is battling heart disease. It is the leading cause of death in the United States and the developed world. And it is increasing rapidly in the developing world as well. But Dr. Ralph Shohet, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research at UH Mānoa's John A. Burns School ...

Inhibiting CaMKII activity could lead to new heart disease therapies

Posted On Friday, October 12, 2012 By . Under IOWA  Tags: ,   
University of Iowa researchers have previously shown that an enzyme called CaM kinase II plays a pivotal role in the death of heart cells following a heart attack or other conditions that damage or stress heart muscle. Loss of beating heart cells is generally permanent and leads to heart failure, ...