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SNO is pleased to announce that travel scholarships for young investigators who are within the first five years of their initial academic appointment to attend the biennial meeting of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) to be held in Marseille, France, September 6-9, 2012.

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 18th Annual Neuro-Tumor Club Dinner Meeting, to be held during AACR in Chicago. The event will take place at the Allegro Hotel, on April 2nd. The deadline for submitting an abstract is March, 2nd. Click on the link above for more details.

Researchers in the Reference Epigenome Mapping Consortium, part of the NIH Common Fund's Roadmap Epigenomics Program (http://commonfund.nih.gov/epigenomics), have begun creating a community resource of genome-wide epigenetic maps in a variety of human primary cell and tissue types. The data currently represent more than 100 samples including adult and fetal cells and tissues, and embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. The majority of reference epigenomes being generated contain ...

The Society for Neuro-Oncology is pleased to announce that the impact factor for our official journal, Neuro-Oncology, has increased by 10% to reach 5.483!

Some 200 clinicians, clinician-scientists, scientists, trainees and students attended the 2011 Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Basic and Translational Research Conference took place at the Loews Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana May 19-20, 2011. The meeting was considered a great success, and a model of its kind for future meetings.

This meeting was held May 19-20, 2011, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was a great success. Over 200 pediatric basic and translational scientists from twelve countries were in attendance to share the latest advances in the area of pediatric neuro-oncology. A full meeting recap will be posted shortly.

The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS) announces the publication of its latest statistical report, 2009-2010 CBTRUS Statistical Report: Primary Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Diagnosed in the United States in 2004-2006 (available online at www.cbtrus.org). Data collected by the National Program of Cancer Registries (CDC) and SEER (NCI) from 47 population-based cancer registries were analyzed resulting in an incidence rate of 18.71 cases per 100,000 person-years ...

The leadership of the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the SNO International Outreach Committee are pleased to announce that Dr. Yi Lin of China has been selected as the first SNO International Outreach Research Fellow.

This historic meeting, held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 22–24, 2009, was the first joint meeting between the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors. The meeting was a huge success, continuing the trend of years past with a record 600 abstracts presented and attendance of over 1,200 people.

Oxford Journals and SNO are pleased to announce a new publishing partnership. Starting with the 2010 volume year, the journal will increase in frequency to monthly publication and the lead-time from article acceptance to publication will be dramatically reduced.

UCSF Brain Tumor Stem Cell Grant to Drive Development of Novel Therapy A team of scientists representing 5 California-based institutions have received a grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to advance stem cell based strategies for treating brain tumors. The objective of the grant is to file a new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within four years, driving a stem cell-associated therapy towards clinical trial. The ...

With heavy hearts, we regret to announce that Mike Traynor, President of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and co-founder of the Ride for Kids®, passed away on September 12, 2009, after a brief illness. He was 70. The SNO family and the entire neuro-oncology community mourns the loss of an extraordinary man.

I had the honor of presenting the SNO Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Byron Wilson, M.D. on November 22, 2008. Unable to attend the presentation were two of our beloved past presidents, Ab Guha and Ed Shaw. Ab was hospitalized in California in preparation for a bone marrow transplant and Ed was home with his ill wife. I decided to put my presentation and some of the pictures I collected on the SNO website so they and others who either missed the presentation or wanted ...

The 2008 SNO Education Day, chaired by Patrick Wen from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, included a balance of updates on translational research, basic science and clinical care. It was held in parallel with a Quality of Life program chaired by Sherry Fox from the University of Virginia. The Education Day program attracted a large audience of over 500 registrants. The morning session, chaired by John DeGroot from MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the limitations of current ...

The 2008 Society for Neuro-Oncology Scientific Meeting held at the Loews Las Vegas Resort in Lake Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 21-23, 2008 was a huge success. The meeting, which drew a record number of abstracts (565, up 15% from 2007) and attendees (over 1200, an increase of over 33% from 2007!) began Thursday with an Education Day organized by Patrick Wen M.D. and Sherry Fox, Ph.D. The scientific program was organized by Michael Vogelbaum, M.D. Click here to read a recap of the ...