The Helix Blog

On March 21, 2012, Jeremy Stark, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Cancer Biology , gave a great seminar during which he touched upon the finer points of preparing an application for a postdoctoral position.

Cooperation of Neurotrophin Receptor TrkB and Her2 in Breast Cancer Cells Facilitates Brain Metastasis Cecilia Choy, Josh Neman, Matthew Duenas, Hubert Li, Nagarajan Vaidehi, Rahul Jandial Metastases are responsible for 90% of all cancer deaths, and patients diagnosed with brain metastasis have a dismal 20% probability of one-year survival.

We graduate students at City of Hope’s Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences have a unique opportunity that sets us apart from students at other schools. This exclusive opportunity is known among students as “the LEL,” something those outside the graduate student realm might recognize as the Leading Edge Lecture series.

Whether we originally hail from the San Gabriel Valley or halfway across the world, we as City of Hope graduate students have become intimately involved with the city of Duarte. After all, Duarte is where we diligently investigate important biomedical questions at research laboratories every day.