Cancer Moonshot Progress Updates

Below are some recent and upcoming activities to help you stay up-to-date on the progress that has been made through the Cancer Moonshot^SM.

For additional updates, and to learn more about the various research initiatives, visit the Cancer Moonshot pages on cancer.gov.

Progress and potential: the Cancer Moonshot

NCI Director, Dr. Norman E. Sharpless, and NCI Deputy Director, Dr. Dinah S. Singer, have co-authored an article, "Progress and potential: the Cancer Moonshot," which was recently published in Cancer Cell. The article presents overarching reflections on these common thematic elements of the Moonshot and provides specific highlights of a few of the advances enabled by this investment.

Join for this month's seminar

May 27, 2021, 12:00–1:00 pm ET

3-D Projection Electrophoresis: Protein Profiling with Single-Cell Resolution
Speaker: Amy Herr, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Recommendation: Develop New Enabling Technologies to Accelerate Cancer Research

Registered for AACR?

If you are registered for AACR, we invite you to join us for two NCI Cancer Moonshot sessions:

NCI Resource: Launching Moonshot HTAN Data: The HTAN Data Portal and Visualizing Complex Data Sets – May 19, 9:45-10:45 am ET
Progress and the Future of the Cancer Moonshot, presented by Dr. Singer – Part of Week 1, now available on-demand

In addition, be sure to check out the session featuring HTAN investigators, Heterogeneity as a Driver of Cancer Progression and Therapeutic Resistance: First Lessons from Human Tumor Atlases, on Friday, May 21 at 9:45 am ET.

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