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Matt Miller Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, (left) and Sean Whelan, PhD, collaborate on research into the virus that causes COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, they cooperated to build a laboratory where the novel coronavirus could be studied. A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Renowned immunologist and oncologist Carl June receives $1 million Sanford Lorraine Cross Award Carl June, M.D., professor in immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the nations largest award in medicine given by a health system. News provided by Share this article Share this article SIOUX FALLS, S.D., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Health, the largest provider of rural healthcare in the country, today announced Carl June, M.D. as...

The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center received the award for his work in developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy.

Sanford Health $1M award given to Dr. Carl June for cancer-killing therapy Sanford Health gave its $1 million 2021 Sanford Lorraine Cross Award to Dr. Carl June, the health system announced Tuesday, April 13. June and colleagues who developed a therapy that finds and kills leukemia cancer cells.  11:54 am, Apr. 14, 2021 × Sanford Health President and CEO Bill Gassen, center, presents Dr. Carl June with the $1 million Sanford Lorraine Award for Junes development of a ther...

Sciences COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation ILLUSTRATION: STEPHAN SCHMITZ/FOLIO ART In March 2020, as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic was coming into view, Jen Nwankwo and colleagues turned a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) tools against SARS-CoV-2. One newly developed AI program, called SUEDE, digitally screens all known druglike compounds for likely activity against biomolecules thought to be involved in disease. The other, BAGEL, predicts how to build in...

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. In March 2020, as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic was coming into view, Jen Nwankwo and colleagues turned a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) tools against SARS-CoV-2. One newly developed AI program, called SUEDE, digitally screens all known druglike compounds for likely activity against biomolecules thought to be involved in disease. The other, BAGEL, predicts how to build inhibitors to known targets. The two p...

US News: NEW YORK:Country music star Dolly Parton has yet another a new gig: Singing the praises of coronavirus shots and getting vaccinated on camera.

Dolly Parton, pictured performing in May 2014, shared a video of herself getting her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. (Wade Payne/Invision/via AP) Country music legend Dolly Parton got a taste of her own medicine on Tuesday when she received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine whose research she helped fund. Parton, 75, documented the moment in a video posted to social media in which she encouraged eligible viewers to get the shot and broke into a modified rendition of "Jolene"...

Singer donated $1m last year to help fund Moderna vaccine

The country singer received the Moderna vaccine and shared the moment to Twitter.