Official O'Keefe Lab blog & (other) cool stuff

Hello! you have reached the official blog spot of our lab which is based at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Urology - our main area of study is prostate cancer, nutrition, and epigenetics - but we also study changes in gene expression in benign-prostatic hyperplasia - we have made this blog so as we can share thoughts about the lab, papers that are just published and anything else remotely relevant at any time, and from anywhere!

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Wow! So we've moved to sunny old south Texas!

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I admit it, it has been just over two years since I have written on this blog -- my last blog post was just before we headed out of the coun...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

AACR Progress against Cancer report now available

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The AACR is the American Association for Cancer Research - they have just published this comprehensive report on cancer - potential causes, ...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

Journal Impact Factors 2011

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I have updated the list for the journals that we are likely to publish in.  Or at least would like to publish in.... You can get to it by c...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Institute of Medicine: the U.S. wastes $750 billion on medical costs annually

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Read this stunning report regarding medical dollar spending in the U.S. In short, the non-government, IOM has concluded the as much as 30 ce...
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Activation of the Innate Anti-Viral Immune System in BPH - now published on-line!

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Allison's paper has just been published on-line in Genes & Immunity, prior to being published in the print version - if you have acc...
Monday, September 3, 2012

High serum folate levels in patients with prostate cancer

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I posted on this subject last year when our paper was published in The Prostate - it has subsequently been one of the most popular posts on ...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Lupus: (aka SLE) an Autoimmune disease induced by DNA demethylation

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Since discovering that a friend had to quit her promising postgraduate degree at CMU because she had lupus, I have been interested in what c...
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Denise S. O'Keefe, PhD.
is the Principal Investigator of a prostate cancer research lab in the Department of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she has worked at Columbia University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. O'Keefe has published more than 30 scientific papers, book chapters, patents and provisional patents and won several national-level awards. In addition she serves on study sections advising the Department of Defense, Florida State Government and the National Institutes of Health.
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