American Cancer Society to help Sanford Burnham Prebys push the envelope in cancer research

Two faculty members from Sanford Burnham Prebys have been awarded grants from the American Cancer Society (ACS), the largest not-for-profit funding body for scientists studying cancer. Associate Professor Cosimo Commisso, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Svasti Haricharan, Ph.D., each received competitive awards to advance their work on difficult-to-treat cancers.

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Yu Xin (Will) Wang joins Sanford Burnham Prebys to advance regenerative medicine

Molecular biologist Yu Xin (Will) Wang, Ph.D., has joined Sanford Burnham Prebys as an assistant professor in the Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program.

“Will brings a multidisciplinary approach to answering hard scientific questions, and I look forward to seeing how his research leads to solutions for people affected by neuromuscular disease," says President and CEO David A. Brenner, M.D.

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Randal J. Kaufman among the world's most highly cited researchers

Professor Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D., was included on Clarivate’s 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global ranking of scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence in their respective fields.

Kaufman is a leader in the field of protein misfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum as a conduit to human disease.

The Clarivate list is based on the number of times a scientist's work has been cited in peer-reviewed publications over the last decade.

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Yasuyuki Kihara wins a dream award

Research Assistant Professor Yasuyuki Kihara, Ph.D., has won an Eicosanoid Research Foundation (ERF) Young Investigator Award, which is presented to early-career researchers who have made breakthroughs in the field of bioactive lipids.

Kihara’s work focuses on multiple sclerosis, a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord that affects the brain’s ability to communicate with the rest of the body. 

“This has been many years in the making, and I’m incredibly honored to receive this award,” he says.

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Sanford Burnham Prebys selected for NCI Chemical Biology Consortium

For the third time, Sanford Burnham Prebys has been selected as a Center for the Chemical Biology Consortium (CBC), which helps support cancer drug discovery.

“It’s great that we’re able to continue to be a part of this Consortium and share resources with cancer researchers across the nation,” says Colin Loweth, Ph.D., who will help oversee the Institute’s participation in the CBC.

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Thanks to you, we’ve been leaders in biomedical research for more than 46 years. 

Every discovery we make and every life we change begins with you.

The stories you’re reading right here in this newsletter are all made possible because of friends like you. You give people hope for a future filled with cures.

Speaking of the future, this holiday season we’re asking our special supporters to help give our researchers the gift of computational biology… the very future of science!

Computational biology is like a real-life superpower. It gives our researchers the power to see things they would never see otherwise! (Our researchers had a little fun with 3D glasses to prove the point)

With the power of computational biology, our researchers can analyze huge amounts of big data, amounts so large that the human mind alone could never analyze them.

We hope you will consider giving our researchers this powerful gift this holiday season.

If it helps, here’s what our researchers are saying about computational biology:

"Because of computational biology, scientists can now target mutated cancer genes that we wouldn’t have thought possible before—it’s a game changer."

Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D.

"Computational biology helps us find our way through complex datasets that come from our research. It’s like helping us find a needle in a haystack."

Cynthia Lebeaupin, Ph.D.

"Computational biology gives every researcher the vision to see things we never even dreamed of before. Imagine what the invention of the microscope did centuries ago. Computational biology is the microscope of the 21st century. It will benefit every researcher and area of science."

Michael Jackson, Ph.D.

Christine Dittmer

Chief Development Officer