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O The START Center for Cancer Research, a maior rede global do mundo de ensaios clínicos de oncologia em fase inicial, define seus objetivos sobre a expansão do acesso a pesquisas inovadoras para todas as comunidades do mundo inteiro. Atualmente apresentando um dos maiores portfólios de testes de câncer em fase inicial em todo o mundo, o START Center é, regularmente, a primeira instalação a abrir e inscrever pacientes, servindo como catalisador no desenvolvimento de novas terapias contra o câncer. Junto com estimados pesquisadores principais (PIs), que são o alicerce da START, Nick Slack, MBE, assume o papel de presidente e diretor executivo, trazendo uma visão ousada de crescimento, inovação e acessibilidade à liderança. Slack, um respeitado líder no setor de pesquisa clínica, traz quase 20 anos de experiência para desenvolver a missão do START de revolucionar a pesquisa clínica do câncer.
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Em sua nova função, Slack pretende expandir o impacto e alcance do START Center para garantir que os ensaios oncológicos de fase inicial de última geração sejam acessíveis a pacientes de qualquer lugar. "O atual ambiente para ensaios clínicos implica que há acesso limitado aos ensaios clínicos de Fase 1 no cenário comunitário", disse Nick Slack, MBE, presidente e CEO do The START Center for Cancer Research. "Mais do que nunca agora, o START Center é necessário. Juntamente com a nossa equipe de pesquisadores principais em toda a rede global do START, estou entusiasmado por mudar essa realidade para garantir que qualquer pessoa, em qualquer lugar, tenha a oportunidade de acessar um ensaio clínico que pode fazer diferença em seu tratamento."
Desde o seu estabelecimento em 2007, as instalações de ensaios clínicos do START Center, chefiadas por 25 pesquisadores principais, realizaram mais de 1.300 ensaios clínicos de Fase 1 e contribuíram para o desenvolvimento de 43 terapias aprovadas pelo FDA/EMA. Com uma rede global que abrange oito locais, incluindo a START San Antonio, START Midwest, START Mountain Region, START Madrid (FJD e CIOCC), START Barcelona, START Dublin e START Lisbon, o START Center está na vanguarda do avanço da pesquisa sobre o câncer. Os cofundadores do The START Center for Cancer Research, Amita Patnaik, médica, FRCPC, e Kyriakos P. Papadopoulos, médico, continuarão em seus papéis essenciais como codiretores de pesquisa clínica na START San Antonio.
Além disso, a empresa, sob a liderança de Slack, planeja promover a inovação em sua divisão pré-clínica, a XenoSTART. Com 2.500 modelos de xenoenxerto derivado de pacientes (PDX), representando mais de 27 tipos de tumor e 25 novos modelos adicionados mensalmente, a XenoSTART está preparada para desempenhar um papel fundamental no avanço da pesquisa translacional e em facilitar o desenvolvimento de terapias inovadoras.
Antes de ingressar no The START Center for Cancer Research, Slack atuou como presidente da WCG Clinical, onde desenvolveu e expandiu relacionamentos com patrocinadores líderes do setor, CROs e sistemas de hospitais. Sua experiência na idealização e implementação de soluções para acelerar a ativação de ensaios clínicos e promover a segurança de assuntos de pesquisa será inestimável para o avanço da missão do START.
"Como pioneiro na pesquisa de oncologia de fase inicial, o START Center está empenhado em ultrapassar os limites da inovação e da acessibilidade", disse Slack. "Nossa visão é garantir que cada paciente, independentemente da localização geográfica, tenha acesso a ensaios clínicos de última geração que podem fazer diferença na sua jornada de tratamento." Junto com uma equipe dedicada de pesquisadores e médicos, o START está preparado para continuar o seu legado de excelência científica, fortes parcerias com empresas farmacêuticas e levar esperança a médicos, pacientes e famílias no mundo inteiro.
Sobre o The START Center for Cancer Research
Profundamente enraizado em centros oncológicos comunitários em todo o mundo, o START Center for Cancer fornece acesso a ensaios pré-clínicos especializados e de Fase 1 de novos agentes anticâncer. As instalações de ensaios clínicos do START Center realizaram mais de mil ensaios clínicos de Fase 1, incluindo 43 terapias que foram aprovadas pelo FDA. O START representa a maior lista mundial de pesquisadores principais (PIs) em seus oito locais de ensaios clínicos. Empenhado em acelerar a passagem dos ensaios para os tratamentos, o START Center oferece esperança aos pacientes, famílias e médicos do mundo inteiro.
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Nick Slack, MBE, Chairman and CEO, The START Center for Cancer Research (Photo: Business Wire)
O The START Center for Cancer Research dá um grande passo à frente em sua missão de levar a esperança da pesquisa do câncer às comunidades do mundo inteiro
O The START Center for Cancer Research dá um grande passo à frente em sua missão de levar a esperança da pesquisa do câncer às comunidades do mundo inteiro
After a wildfire decimated a California high school’s newsroom, destroying its cameras, computers and archived newspapers spanning six decades, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser received came from the other side of the country.
Claire Smith, founding executive director of Temple University's sports media center, had known Lisa Nehus Saxon since they helped carve out a place for women journalists in Major League Baseball more than 40 years ago. They’d supported each other through the days of being barred from locker rooms, and now with much of Palisades Charter High School damaged, Smith wanted to be there for her friend again.
“I just thought, ‘What can we do? How can we help with healing?’” Smith said.
Earlier this week, she traveled from Philadelphia to deliver the result of that offer: a university paper featuring the high school students’ articles.
Across nearly a dozen pages, the insert showcased articles on price gouging in the rental market after the wildfire and the school returning to in-person lessons, along with poignant firsthand accounts of losing everything to the fire. There were also poems and hand-drawn pictures by students from Pasadena Rosebud Academy, a transitional kindergarten through eighth-grade school in Altadena, California, that was destroyed in the fire.
Wildfires in January ravaged the Los Angeles area, wiping out nearly 17,000 structures including homes, schools, businesses and places of worship.
The Palisades high school, made up of about 3,000 students in Los Angeles, saw about 40% of its campus damaged and had to move temporarily into an old Sears building. Nehus Saxon estimated that around a quarter of its newspaper staff members lost their homes, with some forced to move out of the community and switch schools.
This project, she and Smith said, was a way to give students a project to focus on after the tragedy while also providing them a place to tell a larger audience the experience of their community.
Smith said she thought the project would be healing for the students “but also give them something that they could hold in their hands and, when they grow up, show their children and grandchildren."
Inside a basement classroom in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Smith and Samuel O’Neal, The Temple News’ editor-in-chief, handed out the papers to the high school staff.
It was the first time they had seen their Tideline articles in print, as the paper had moved online years ago due to the cost.
Kate Swain, 18, a co-editor-in-chief for the paper, said it felt surreal to finally flip through the printed pages.
“Because of everything that we’ve gone through together, everything that we’ve had to persevere through and everyone’s had all these personal things that they’ve been dealing with," she said. "And yet simultaneously, we’ve been pouring all this time and energy and all of our passion for journalism into writing these articles.”
Gigi Appelbaum, 18, a co-editor-in-chief of the paper who lost her home in the fire, said the project felt especially distinct because it involved people thousands of miles away.
“The fact that people from across the country are aware of what's going on with us and emphasize with our situation and want to get our voices out there, it’s really special,” said Appelbaum, who has been on the paper for four years.
One of the things she lost in the fire was a box filled with important cards and messages. She said she plans to store her copy in a new box as she works to restart the collection.
Smith and Nehus Saxon met in 1983 during a game between the Angels and Yankees in Anaheim, California. Nehus Saxon said she walked over to Smith to introduce herself and found her hustling to meet a deadline.
“Who knew that little introduction would blossom into this,” said Nehus Saxon.
In the years since, they’ve traveled to London together for Major League Baseball’s first games in Europe, and they cried together in 2017 as Smith became the first woman to win the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Career Excellence Award.
“We don’t talk every week,” Nehus Saxon said. “Sometimes we can go, you know, months and months without talking. But all we have to do is send each other a text message and we know the other will be there immediately.”
That bond was made all the more clear when Nehus Saxon heard from Smith as fire engulfed her community. Her home was only three blocks from the school. While it survived the blaze, it’s filled with led laden ash and may not be safe to live in for years.
But with the help of Smith, she and her students have been able to move forward and produce the final edition of the school year. After the papers were handed out, Nehus Saxon kept one for the school's archive.
“When you’ve lost everything you’ve got to start somewhere,” Smith said.
Copies of Tideline, Palisades High School's student newspaper, are placed on a table in their newsroom, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Samuel O'Neal, left, editor-in-chief of Temple News, shows a copy of his school's publication to Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts during a visit to Dodger Stadium, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Members of of the Palisades High School newspaper staff, from left to right, Cloé Nourparvar, Gigi Appelbaum, and Kate Swain, hold a copy of the school's publication, which was printed in Philadelphia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Claire Smith, founding executive director of Temple University's sports media center, center, and Samuel O'Neal, left, editor-in-chief of the Temple News, deliver copies of the Palisades High School newspaper to staff, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Staff members of Tideline, Palisades High School's newspaper, Sophia Masserat, left, and Eve Keller read a copy of the publication, freshly delivered from Philadelphia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Members of Tideline, the student newspaper, pose for a group photo showing the publication at the interim location for Palisades High School Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
