Items Tagged ‘John Copland III’
January 8, 2020
Mentoring, science fair ignite SPARK in high school students
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Growing up, Rishi Misra watched his grandmother add fragrant Indian spices to family meals. In ninth grade, Misra came across a study showing that these spices have antibacterial properties. This piqued his interest in science – a curiosity being nurtured by Mayo Clinic’s research mentoring program known as SPARK. SPARK stands for Science Program for the Advancement […]
Tags: basic science, Dev Mukhopadhyay, John Copland III, Keith Knutson, Panos Anastasiadis, research, research education, Ruifeng Lu, Tushar Patel, Vijay Madamsetty
December 5, 2019
It’s predator versus predator at Alligator Tank health care innovation competition
By Advancing the Science contributor
Entrepreneurs chomped at the chance to present exciting new health care projects at the Alligator Tank competition, held Nov. 19 at Mayo Clinic in Florida. About 100 people showed up in Kinne Auditorium—at times standing room only—to watch eager contestants put everything on the line and give their best performance. Like the “Shark Tank” television […]
Tags: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Basar Sareyyupoglu, Charles Bruce, Christine Mehner, David Abia Trujillo, entrepreneurship, Eric Nottmeier, John Copland III, Maarten Rotman, Magdalena Cichon, Magdy El-Sayed Ahmed, Mark Pichelmann
May 14, 2019
Mayo Clinic SPARKs applause at Florida school district’s Academy Awards
By Advancing the Science contributor
Lights…camera…action! Mayo Clinic and its successful research mentoring program, known as SPARK, took center stage at the St. Johns County School District Academy Awards on April 2. The awards recognize members of Florida’s business community for opportunities and resources they provide to area high schools through St. Johns Career Academies, which encourage students to explore […]
Tags: Aneel Paulus, John Copland III, Katherine Rodriguez, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tim Kellet, Tushar Patel
October 3, 2018
Mayo Clinic Awarded Nation’s First Hepatobiliary SPORE Grant
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Mayo Clinic an $11.5 million grant to fund a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in hepatobiliary cancer through August 2023. Headed by principal investigators Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D., and Lewis R. Roberts, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., the goal of the Mayo Clinic Hepatobiliary SPORE is to make discoveries […]
Tags: cancer, Chen Wang, Edward Leof, gastrointestinal cancer, Gregory Gores, John Copland III, Lewis Roberts, liver cancer, Mark McNiven, Mark Truty, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Michael Torbenson
March 20, 2018
Navigating the intricacies of aggressive cancers to address the unmet needs of patients
Deep inside a cancer biology research laboratory, amid countless vials, machines and experiments, recent genomic findings have pointed to a new potential route addressing some of the most aggressive cancers. Recently researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus zeroed in on a genetic pathway—SCD1—which they found operates in high gear in many potentially deadly tumors. Their […]
Tags: basic science, cancer, clinical trials, John Copland III, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
October 17, 2017
New fish in the sea – Mayo Clinic research websites expanding content
At Mayo Clinic, research is integral to everything we do. We would be unable to offer the highest possible levels of care and continually improve the practice of medicine without research, and the education programs and processes to make it a reality. Thanks for visiting, and we hope you enjoy learning more about some of […]
Tags: brain tumor, Jann Sarkaria, Jennifer Westendorf, John Copland III, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, mindfulness, orthopedics, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Roberto Benzo