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A Mother's Passion and UC Research Findings

A Mother's Passion and UC Research Findings

Liz Bonis, WKRC Local 12 health reporter, spoke with Brandon's mother, Karen, and head and neck cancer researcher, Dr. Trisha Wise-Draper, about head and neck cancer and recent findings regarding the role of the DEK gene in certain types of

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April is Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Month

April is Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Month

Five years ago - April 2010 - I'd never heard of Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Month, although our family had recently become acquainted with head and neck cancer. Only a few weeks earlier Brandon called with news that brought me, his mother, to

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Ceremonial Grant Award Check Presented to UC Researchers
Scott Langevin, PhD, MHA and Keith Casper, MD presented with grant award check

Ceremonial Grant Award Check Presented to UC Researchers

This year Brandon's Foundation awarded its first research grants. During the December 4th Happy Hour at The Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati, the researchers who submitted one of the two research proposals awarded the foundation's first grant

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2014 Research Grant Awards - Meet the Researchers
Meet the Researchers - Happy Hour at The Phoenix, December 4th

2014 Research Grant Awards - Meet the Researchers

This year Brandon's Foundation awarded its first research grants, and oh, how much we learned. Early in the year, the Research Grant Task Force sent a handful of the Request for Proposals (RFP) document to head and neck cancer

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