Editing Beckman Research Institute (section)

===Cancer===
Arthur Riggs went on to work with Shmuel Cabilly on "fundamental technology required for the artificial synthesis of antibody molecules", since used to create "smart" cancer drugs.<ref name=PatentSuit>{{cite news|last1=Meland|first1=Marius|title=Judge Dismisses MedImmune's Patent Suit Vs. Genentech|url=http://www.law360.com/articles/1355/judge-dismisses-medimmune-s-patent-suit-vs-genentech|access-date=13 May 2015|work=Law360|date=April 24, 2004|archive-date=26 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726162215/https://www.law360.com/articles/1355/judge-dismisses-medimmune-s-patent-suit-vs-genentech|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Interview>{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Wayne|title=Art Riggs: Smart cancer drugs and how they came to be|url=http://breakthroughs.cityofhope.org/art-riggs-smart-cancer-drugs|access-date=13 May 2015|work=City of Hope Breakthroughs|date=June 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329093237/http://breakthroughs.cityofhope.org/art-riggs-smart-cancer-drugs|archive-date=29 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Riggs has been associated with the institute in several ways, including as director of the Beckman Research Institute from 2000 to 2007, now director emeritus.

Gerd Pfeifer was able to prove a definitive link between smoking and lung cancer, by demonstrating genetic damage in lung cells, caused by a chemical in cigarette smoke.<ref name=SmokingGun>{{cite news|last1=STOUT|first1=DAVID|title=Direct link found between smoking and lung cancer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/18/us/direct-link-found-between-smoking-and-lung-cancer.html|access-date=13 May 2015|work=New York Times|date=October 18, 1996}}</ref><ref name=Biomarkers>{{cite journal|last1=Hecht|first1=Stephen S.|last2=Carmella|first2=Steven G.|last3=Murphy|first3=Sharon E.|last4=Foiles|first4=Peter G.|last5=Chung|first5=Fung-Lung|title=Carcinogen biomarkers related to smoking and upper aerodigestive tract cancer|journal=Journal of Cellular Biochemistry|date=1993|volume=53|issue=S17F|pages=27–35|doi=10.1002/jcb.240531005|pmid=8412204|s2cid=7492212}}<!--|accessdate=13 May 2015--></ref>

The Beckman Research Institute has partnered with the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation in the Health of Women Study (HOW), a long-term [[cohort study]] tracking the health of women via online and mobile platforms. It will study both women who have and who do not have breast cancer. The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation hopes to recruit one million women volunteers to become part of its participating "Army of Women".<ref name=Women>{{cite news|title=The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation And The Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope Launch The Groundbreaking Health of Women Study|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-dr-susan-love-research-foundation-and-the-beckman-research-institute-of-city-of-hope-launch-the-groundbreaking-health-of-women-study-172251821.html|access-date=14 May 2015|work=PR Newswire|date=October 2, 2012|archive-date=18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518082435/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-dr-susan-love-research-foundation-and-the-beckman-research-institute-of-city-of-hope-launch-the-groundbreaking-health-of-women-study-172251821.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Army>{{cite web|title=Army of Women working for a future without breast cancer|url=http://www.armyofwomen.org/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414062442/http://www.armyofwomen.org/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 14, 2013|website=Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation|access-date=14 May 2015}}</ref><ref name=Carrera>{{cite news|last1=Carrera|first1=Krysten|title=Author Susan Love Visits NCI|url=http://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2010/12_10_2010/story8.htm|work=NIH Record|date=2010-12-10}}</ref>

[[Hua Eleanor Yu]] and her group are studying the involvement of [[STAT3]] with cancer cells and the immune system, and developing possible drug treatments to attack tumor cells.<ref name=Bronchud>{{cite book|last1=Bronchud|first1=Miguel H.|title=Principles of molecular oncology|date=2008|publisher=Humana Press|location=Totowa, NJ|isbn=978-1-59745-470-4|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1nN6U3bGcTgC&pg=PT877|access-date=5 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=Dranoff>{{cite book|last1=Dranoff|first1=Glenn|title=Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy|date=2011|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|location=Berlin, Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-14136-2|pages=47–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSM545kh36oC&pg=PA47|access-date=5 November 2015}}</ref>