Sentences with phrase «cancer center director»

Director, The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center Director, Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology / Oncology

Prior to his appointment as cancer center director, Gilbertson served as the founding director of the hospital's Molecular Clinical Trials Core and co-leader of the Neurobiology and Brain Tumor Program.

Altieri joined the Institute as the Wistar Cancer Center Director and its first Chief Scientific Officer in September 2010.

Dr. Ruoslahti became president and CEO and also assumed the role of Cancer Center director.

Cancer Center Director William Nelson said the institute would tackle some of the most pressing issues surrounding immune therapy: Why do only 20 to 30 percent of patients respond to the approach?

A task force of cancer center directors is working on a modified timeline that will be «numbers and data driven,» Mendelsohn says.

The selection process was rigorous and nominations were solicited from cancer center directors worldwide.

Not exact matches

Laurie Glimcher, M.D, president and chief executive officer of Dana - Farber, is also chief executive officer of Dana - Farber / Partners CancerCare, director of Dana - Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, and a trustee of Dana - Farber / Children's Hospital Cancer Care.

C. Anthony Blau, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Co-Director, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine; Director, Center for Cancer Innovation, University of Washington School of Medicine; Founder, All4Cure

Dr. Larry Corey, Principal Investigator, HIV Vaccine Trials Network; Past President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Dr. Diane Havlir, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Moderator: Siobhan O'Connor, Time Magazine

Helmy Eltoukhy, Co-founder and CEO, Guardant Health Dr. Sam Hanash, Director, Red and Charline McCombs Institute for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer, MD Anderson Cancer Center Dr. Anirban Maitra, Scientific Director, Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Fortune

Parker Institute affiliated co-authors on the paper include Dr. Okada and Carl June, M.D., a Parker Institute director based at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

September 21, 2018 1:15 PM — 1:55 PM Panel: «Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Personalized Care» Sam King, Industry Fellow and Chair, Digital Healthcare, UC Irvine Health Raymond Aller, MD, Department of Pathology, Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital Viraj Patwardhan, Director, Digital Consumer Experience, Information Systems and -LSB-...]

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Kevin Green has recognized youth volunteers from The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and Dodge Pratt Northam Art Community all performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

Not anywhere,» said Maureen Killackey, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society of New York and New Jersey, and medical director at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Dr. Leslie Kohman, medical director of Upstate's cancer center, told Syracuse.com in February that Upstate University Hospital would like to have a mobile unit so that it can reach more women who should have mammographies.

Dr. Robert Taub, the director of Columbia's Mesothelioma Center, which handles asbestos - related cancer, referred his patients to Silver's law firm in exchange for the speaker steering $ 500,000 in state money to his research and providing favors to his family, according to a criminal complaint and sources.

Smoking rates have dropped in recent years, but cigarettes remain the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., and electronic cigarettes pose a new danger, says Dr. Leslie Kohman, professor of surgery and director of outreach for the Upstate Cancer Center.

Anthony Billoni is the director of Tobacco - Free WNY at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, owner of AB Creativity Consulting and past president of Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Rotary Club.

Patricia Spencer - Cisek of Queensbury, executive director of oncology services at Glens Falls Hospital's C.R. Wood Cancer Center, said her service on the jury made her feel that there is an urgency for reform.

But like many core facility directors, Potter also has the chance to use the equipment to conduct research, a privilege also enjoyed by Ralph J. Garippa, director of the RNAi Core Facility at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City.

«We're trying to build models that describe how tumors grow and respond to therapy,» said Yankeelov, director of the Center for Computational Oncology at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and director of Cancer Imaging Research in the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cCancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cCancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancercancer.

Joe W. Ramos, PhD, deputy director of the UH Cancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating how these oncogenes and related signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer cell behCancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating how these oncogenes and related signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer cell behcancer cell behavior.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartcancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at DartCancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at DartCancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

«Next generation sequencing tools were used to profile patients» tumors,» said Razelle Kurzrock, MD, director of the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

«Although FDA approval is critically important for introducing a new screening test or algorithm, providers ultimately rely on guidance or guidelines to help them make the best decisions for their patients and want to understand advantages, disadvantages and unknowns associated with a new screening approach,» said Huh, who is a senior scientist for the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director of the UAB Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and is also a board member for both the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and the Society of Gynecologic Oncology.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Hcancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HCancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

The drug was developed by Lawrence - based CritiTech, and the drug - testing and phase I clinical trial were conducted by KU Cancer Center researchers, led by Stephen Williamson, M.D., medical director of Cancer Clinical Trials.

Judith Gasson, senior associate dean for research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Jonsson Cancer Center, said researchers have long hoped to develop an effective and lasting immunotherapy to fight cCancer Center, said researchers have long hoped to develop an effective and lasting immunotherapy to fight cancercancer.

Thompson became the founding scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute in 1999 and in 2006 took the helm of the Abramson Cancer Center.

Although rare for any individual cancer type, if found in an individual patient, these fusions are likely a major driver of that patient's cancer,» said Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«These findings suggest that many men with intermediate risk prostate cancer can be well managed with seed implant alone and do not require the addition of external beam radiation,» said Bradley Prestidge, MD, lead author of the study and Medical Director of the Bon Secours Cancer Institute at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk, Vircancer can be well managed with seed implant alone and do not require the addition of external beam radiation,» said Bradley Prestidge, MD, lead author of the study and Medical Director of the Bon Secours Cancer Institute at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk, VirCancer Institute at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

«These are optimistic results for one of the first targeted therapies for cancer stem cells,» says Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center, director of the university's Cancer Stem Cell - Directed Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator of the clinical trial at the CU Cancer Centercancer stem cells,» says Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center, director of the university's Cancer Stem Cell - Directed Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator of the clinical trial at the CU Cancer CenterCancer Center, director of the university's Cancer Stem Cell - Directed Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator of the clinical trial at the CU Cancer CenterCancer Stem Cell - Directed Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator of the clinical trial at the CU Cancer CenterCancer Center site.

«This study demonstrates that targeted fusion - guided biopsy could significantly enhance our ability to identify patients with high - risk prostate cancers that need more aggressive treatment,» says lead author Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of urologic robotic surgery at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

The trial, which will be led by Maria R. Baer, MD, professor of medicine at UM SOM and director of hematologic malignancies at UMGCCC, will enroll patients at the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and several other sites.

«Based on epidemiological studies, the 9vHPV vaccine could prevent approximately 90 percent of cervical cancer, 90 percent of HPV - related vulvar and vaginal cancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Mocancer, 90 percent of HPV - related vulvar and vaginal cancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Mocancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Mocancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at MoCancer at Moffitt.

Young people with body mass indexes (BMIs) over 30 are more likely to experience aggressive malignancies, says author Nathan A. Berger, MD, Hanna - Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine; director of the Center for Science, Health and Society; member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; and professor of medicine, biochemistry, oncology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Until now, EGFR inhibitors have only been effective at treating the 10 to 15 percent of non-small cell lung cancers that have a variant of EGFR, but the two - drug combo could potentially work for all non-small cell lung cancers, explained Dr. John Minna, Director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology.

A long standing concern has been that patients with pancreatic cancer are often not diagnosed until it is too late for the best chance at effective treatment,» said Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, director of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at the University of Pennsylcancer are often not diagnosed until it is too late for the best chance at effective treatment,» said Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, director of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at the University of PennsylCancer Center (ACC) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Allison, chair of the immunology department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and executive director of its research center on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunothCenter in Houston and executive director of its research center on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunothcenter on immunotherapy, spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of immunotherapy.

The realization that «cancer is complicated, and no single institute, country, or even continent would be able to deal with it,» led to the Stockholm Declaration, a commitment to join forces signed by the directors of 18 European cancer centers.

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.

Future studies are planned by Chang and other School of Medicine researchers — including senior author Kenneth R. Carson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of oncology, and Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a cancer expert who also is associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish Hoscancer expert who also is associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish HosCancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

In September, Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York and Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology announced that they would partner to test a cancer vaccine, said Cristina Rabadán - Diehl, director of the Office of the Americas in the Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human SerCancer Institute in New York and Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology announced that they would partner to test a cancer vaccine, said Cristina Rabadán - Diehl, director of the Office of the Americas in the Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Sercancer vaccine, said Cristina Rabadán - Diehl, director of the Office of the Americas in the Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

«This tool is a technology that is transformative in the evaluation of pancreatic cysts,» said co-lead author Douglas K. Pleskow, MD, Clinical Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Director of the Colon and Rectal Cancer Program at the Cancer Center at BIDMC.

David Agus, the research director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center and director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics, both at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, spent most of his time with end - of - life cancer patCancer Center and director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics, both at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, spent most of his time with end - of - life cancer patcancer patients.

Marc Vidal is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston