October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and NCI at Frederick is marking the occasion with several events. Occupational Health Services (OHS) is hosting a table at the weekly farmers’ market, two survivors’ walks, and “pink shirt” days throughout the month.

Ulrich Baxa, Ph.D., and his team are helping to move a microscope the size of a minivan. The behemoth, a Titan Krios, is making the 29-mile trek from a Gaithersburg, Maryland, laboratory to its new home at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.

The Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Department has been serving and supporting the NCI scientific mission since 1972. Our dedicated staff works 24/7 behind the scenes to ensure that the NCI campus and laboratory environments are safe, functional, and reliable, as well as comfortable and aesthetically pleasing.

The Scientific Library at NCI at Frederick provides resources and services to support cutting-edge cancer, AIDS, and infectious disease research, and the librarians and informationists are ready to guide researchers to any information they need. Within the past year, two new staff members began working at the Scientific Library: Biosciences Informationist Matt Stirling and Public Services Librarian Joelle Mornini. Librarian Tracie Frederick, who has been with the Scientific Library for 12 years, also stepped into the role of Library Director in 2018.

Scientists at NCI at Frederick, the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, and four Chinese institutions have uncovered why glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, is more aggressive in diabetic patients than nondiabetic patients. The team’s paper asserts that high amounts of a sugar called glucose trigger multiple biological processes that snowball to increase glioblastoma’s aggressiveness.