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September 5, 2008
New clues found to treat brain cancer
A massive scan of tumor samples from a Phoenix lab has revealed new genetic clues about an aggressive form of brain cancer, which could open the door to new treatments and explain why some patients don't respond to a common chemotherapy drug. The scientific findings, revealed Thursday, are the initial batch of results from the federal government's $100 million research initiative known as the Cancer Genome Atlas project... [ more ]

September 4, 2008
The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports First Results of Comprehensive Study of Brain Tumors
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, a collaborative effort funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today reported the first results of its large-scale, comprehensive study of the most common form of brain cancer, glioblastoma (GBM)... [ more ]

September 13, 2006
IGC and TGen Selected to Lead the Biospecimen Core of the Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Project
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced the selection of IGC in collaboration with TGen to lead the Human Cancer Biospecimen Core Resource (BCR) component of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) pilot project... [ more ]

October 24, 2005
Expression Project for Oncology (expO) Collects 1,000th Malignant Tumor Specimen
Clinically annotated results are publicly available online... [ more ]

January 21, 2005
Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses
Clinically annotated results are publicly available online... [ more ] [ pdf ]

December 8, 2004
TGen and IGC announce launch of the Molecular Profiling Institute
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the International Genomics Consortium (IGC) have formed the Molecular Profiling Institute, Inc., a specialty reference laboratory that utilizes discoveries from the Human Genome Project to analyze cancers from individual patients... [ more ]

March 5, 2004
Nation's first clinically annotated, publicly available gene expression database to help researchers accelerate cancer treatment discoveries
Compilation of the nation's first public database of standardized, clinically annotated gene expression data began March 1 with the launch of the International Genomics Consortium (IGC) expression project for Oncology (expO)... [ more ] [ pdf ]

June 13, 2003
Arizona Starts New Era With Bioscience Ceremony
A groundbreaking ceremony in downtown Phoenix today marked the start of construction on the first building in the new Phoenix Bioscience Center at Copper Square. Officials from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), the International Genomics Consortium and the City of Phoenix joined with Governor Janet Napolitano... [ more ]

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