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SFA scientists lay out a blueprint for a national system to facilitate routine “cancer recurrence interception trials.”
October 3, 2024. Cambridge, MA – Scientists at Science for America, Massachusetts General Hospital, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard laid out a blueprint for a national system to facilitate “cancer recurrence interception trials,” to test new drugs in patients before they show clinical or radiographic evidence of cancer, in an article published in the journal, Nat Rev Cancer. The system could speed drug development for solid tumors — enabling faster, cheaper, and smaller clinical trials by engaging the more than 100,000 patients who have been treated for an early-stage cancer but are at risk that the cancer will recur.
Science for America finds two promising approaches to fusion power
May 12, 2023. Science for America released a report, “New Opportunities for Fusion Power,” which lays out two approaches for fusion power with the potential to speed progress, decrease cost, and simplify engineering challenges and might both be tested efficiently on a single, shared “demonstration system.”
SfA brought together scientists and technologists to explore whether recent scientific advances reveal promising paths that have received too little attention to date. They identified two designs: a Magnetic Igniter, which may achieve fusion ignition much more efficiently than current laser-based designs, and a Sweet-Spot Burner, which aims to create small, inexpensive fusion systems. The report aims to jumpstart research and commercialization efforts on both, to accelerate fusion as a clean, affordable, scalable power source.
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Science for America launches with support from nine leading philanthropic organizations
May 20, 2022. Science for America was launched today with support from some of the nation’s leading philanthropic individuals, initiatives, and organizations, who have joined together in an unprecedented alliance. Science for America is a “solutions incubator” that aims to help solve urgent challenges in climate and energy, health and medicine, STEM equity and education, critical technologies, and new models of innovation. Possible solutions may include creation of projects, initiatives, shared facilities, coalitions, companies, prizes, and advocacy efforts.
Science for America will bring together scientists and technologists and work with partners across sectors to identify potential game-changing solutions to urgent challenges, in the US and around the world; develop clear vision, strategy and execution plans; and ensure the launch and success of those solutions, by incubating them to an appropriate stage.
