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Tufts on Cancer and Pharmaceuticals

By On July 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Robert Tufts, clinical assistant arofessor of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at Sy Syms School of Business, was the master of ceremonies and a facilitator at Pat’s Myeloma Survival School in Atlanta, Georgia. The event was a grassroots training and information conducted in coordination with the […]

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Holz and Stern Alumni Publish Articles in Oncogene, Clinical Cancer Research

By On November 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, the Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology and professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published two articles in prestigious scientific journals with her former students and post-docs.

“mTORC1 directly phosphorylates and activates ER[alpha] upon estrogen stimulation” appears in the November 2, 2015 edition of Oncogene and […]

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Holz Publishes Article in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

By On April 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology, recently published an article in  The American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Titled “The combination of rapamycin and resveratrol causes apoptosis and reduces growth of TSC2-deficient xenograft tumors,” the study investigates a potential treatment for Lympangeioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and similar diseases. Her coauthors include recent Stern College […]

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Holz Publishes Article in Cell Cycle

By On December 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published an article in Cell Cycle. Titled “Resveratrol prevents rapamycin-induced upregulation of autophagy and selectively induces apoptosis in TSC2-deficient cells,” the article demonstrates how the combination of Rapamycin, an FDA-approved drug, with a natural agent, Resveratrol, is effecting […]

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