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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, FL - October 25, 2012 through November 1, 2012 • Year III • Number 119- FREE
Community
Rock The Vote at Mizner Park with Neon Trees See page 6
Boca Raton Is The Winner of The Debate
Municipal News Boca Police crack cold case; arrest ‘Superthief’ on sexual assault charges
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Business
A Re-Born Boston’s celebrates Its First Anniversary See page 25
Life & Arts
Palm Beach Pops Kicks Off 21st Season on November 4 in Boca Raton See page B1
Boca’s Connie Siskowski named to 2012 FAU, Boca Regional Hospital Partner for CNN Heroes Top Ten Novel Breast Cancer Initiative
“Every online vote for me by email or Facebook makes us one step closer to reaching the goal for the children of AACY,” said Siskowski. The award would make it possible for AACY to receive the significant dollars needed to ensure that more child caregivers locally and nationally will be recognized, Connie Siskowski valued and supported. The services provided by BOCA RATON – Connie Siskowski and her team are for Siskowski, RN, PhD, the president children who care for family and founder of the American members who are chronicallyAssociation of Caregiving Youth ill or disabled. It extends to both (AACY) and its Palm Beach County students and their families for all Caregiving Youth Project (CYP), the secondary school years. has been named one of CNN Heroes AACY’s comprehensive, needsTop Ten for 2012 and will receive a driven support services assist $50,000 grant to further her work. children in-and-out of school and Voting for the 2012 CNN Heroes at home. Locally, the work is in Top Hero is now open online, partnership with the School District Siskowski has the opportunity to of Palm Beach County. be awarded $250,000 at the special “It takes the systems of CNN Heroes ceremony Dec. 2 healthcare, education and the where one hero will be named community – body, mind and spirit “CNN Hero of the Year”. Siskowski – to form a strong foundation of was among more than 10,000 services for youth and their families nominations received this year by who are impacted by a myriad of the CNN Heroes program. cont. on Pg.3
BOCA RATON - Reflective of the growing collaboration between the two institutions and in observance of national Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Boca Raton Regional Hospital have announced a joint research initiative aimed at predicting breast cancer behavior and developing therapies that will block the metastatic process of the disease. The preliminary findings of the study were presented at 22nd Biennial European Association of Cancer Research Conference in Barcelona, Spain this summer. “This initial effort is a watershed moment in our burgeoning research partnership,” said Kathy Shilling, M.D., medical director of Boca Regional’s Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute. “It combines our significant strength in clinical breast care with the cutting-edge basic research capabilities of the Schmidt College of Medicine. All of us are excited about this growing collaboration, not just in breast cancer but across the spectrum of our specialties.”
Vijaya Iragavarpu-Charyulu, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical science in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, is collaborating with Schilling, and the project has been designed to evaluate novel metastatic markers in breast cancer patients and to investigate their possible correlation with the aggressiveness of the disease. Iragavarapu-Charyulu has been studying the role of the immune system and mechanisms involved in breast cancer metastasis. Ramon Garcia-Areas, a Ph.D. student in Iragavarapu-Charyulu’s laboratory, has discovered that a molecule originally expressed during the development of the nervous system is re-expressed during tumor growth and enhances tumor metastatic potential in a breast cancer cont. on Pg.3 model.
From left, Ramon GarciaAreas, Kathy Shilling, M.D., and Vijaya Iragavarpu-Charyulu, Ph.D.
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