(January 10, 2019) We’re pleased to announce OCRA’s newest research grants of $5.25 million to 23 top scientists at 14 top medical centers. In 2019, with our other ongoing grants … Continued
(December 21, 2018) This month, researchers in Boston published their findings on how PARP inhibitors (PARPi) cause a chain reaction of responses from the tumor and its environment. Study authors, … Continued
(October 22, 2018) A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago, including OCRA grantee Matthew Dean, PhD, recently discovered the role that cancer cells have on their immediate environment. … Continued
(October 15, 2018) This month in Nature, researchers from Weill Cornell published a study that helps to explain why the body’s natural immune response struggles to fight back against ovarian … Continued
(October 2, 2018) A study by the Mayo Clinic earlier this year aimed to increase the amount of genetic counseling referrals to epithelial ovarian cancer patients by supplying patients with … Continued
(September 21, 2018) In an international collaboration funded in part by OCRFA, published recently in Cell, researchers used proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, to identify an important indicator for … Continued
(April 27, 2018) An OCRFA supported study, recently published in Oncogene, delved into the mechanics of how ovarian cancer spreads throughout the body. Researchers at Johns Hopkins, including OCRFA grantee … Continued
(April 24, 2018) Science Advances recently published a study that succeeded in detecting HE4, a biomarker for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC), by implanting an optical sensor near a disease … Continued
(January 25, 2018) OCRFA has just awarded more than $5.3 million in new scientific research grants for ovarian cancer, bringing our total investment in life-saving research to over $80 million. … Continued
(December 20, 2017) Cell Reports published new research from the Wistar Institute, which looked at the potential benefits of a therapy that combines PARP inhibitors and BET inhibitors for ovarian … Continued
(November 22, 2017) A recent paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reports that a subset of ovarian cancers reduce the expression of a critical gene involved in recycling … Continued
(October 19, 2017) BRCA1 and BRCA2 are among the most frequently mutated genes in ovarian cancer. Studies conducted in the past two decades have shown that BRCA1 and BRCA2 play … Continued
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