Canary Center News Archives

9th Annual Canary Early Detection Symposium

October 15, 2013

The Canary Foundation Early Detection Symposium serves as a forum for members of the extended Canary Foundation Network to meet and share their successes, challenges, and visions for the field of early detection of cancer. Our goal is to work together to generate and optimize strategies for discovery, validation, and dissemination of tests for early cancer detection.

The speakers and audience include leading academic researchers, clinicians, as well as commercial and foundational partners. Agenda includes keynotes on global, government, and industry perspectives, as well as presentations and posters on Canarys investments towards early detection of ovarian, lung, prostate, and pancreatic cancer.

3155 and 3165 Porter Drive Open House

Photo of 3155 and 3165 Porter Drive ribbon cutting

October 14, 2013

On October 14, 2013 we celebrated the opening of our new world class facilities at 3155 and 3165 Porter Drive. The Open House included a reception, ribbon cutting by Don Listwin, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Dean Lloyd Minor, MDand Beverley Mitchell, MD and tours of our proteomics, molecular biology, and chemistry core facilities.

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2013 Canary Challenge

The 2013 Canary Challenge

September 28, 2013

With 800 cyclists and 120 volunteers, the 2013 Canary Challenge raised over $800,000. Donations directly benefit Stanford Cancer Institute and the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection.

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Canary Center to Work with Labycyte on New NCI SBIR Grant "Imaging, Genomics, and Glycoproteomics for Cancer Detection"

September 23, 2013

Labcyte Inc., the acoustic dispensing company, has been awarded $1 million to create an innovative process to detect cancer-related proteins in samples, with initial work in breast cancer detection. The unsurpassed precision and accuracy of Labcyte acoustic liquid handling enables biomarker detection by measuring multiple proteins with a MALDI mass spectrometer. Recent work with the Canary Center at Stanford, also supported by the National Cancer Institute, showed the ability to achieve the sensitivity required for quantifying very small amounts of proteins associated with ovarian cancer. Measuring the amount of multiple proteins, and at lower cost, is an essential step in developing new diagnostic tools for disease treatment and monitoring.

This cutting-edge process encompasses stable standards and capture of biomarkers with antibodies and expects to achieve greater throughput than traditional liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric approaches. The utility of this technique will be tested by simultaneously analyzing 16 different biomarkers, run in quadruplicate, to simulate the analysis of 64 unique biomarkers. The process has the potential to expand to a greater number of biomarkers as well. It may enable significant advances in diagnostics and discovery.

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September 20, 2013

Dr. Diehn Received NIH New Innovator Award for "Developing a Genomic Approach for Cancer Screening"

July 8, 2013

Dr. Gambhir Received NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) for "Improved Prostate Cancer Detection Using Combined Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging"

June 24, 2013

Dr. Pitteri Awarded UCOP Grant for "Imaging, Genomics, and Glycoproteomics for Cancer Detection"

June 15, 2013

The New "Molecular Imaging Primer" eBook is Now Available

January 31, 2013

Dr. Levi's Photoacoustic Imaging Research Highlighted in Clinical Cancer Research

January 31, 2013

Dr. Pitteri Received McCormick Faculty Award

September 25, 2012

Dr. de la Zerda Received NIH Early Independence Award for his Project "Molecular Imaging of Protein Glycosylation in Living Subjects"

September 9, 2012

Dr. Kullolli received a Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) 11th Annual World Congress Travel Award