Sentences with phrase «endow cancer studies»
Each center will get $ 90 million to endow cancer studies in perpetuity or until cancer is no longer a problem.
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Other UT Southwestern researchers involved in the study were Dr. Ramzi Abdulrahman, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Dr. Arthur Sagalowsky, Professor of Urology and Surgery, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds The Dr. Paul Peters Chair in Urology in Memory of Rumsey and Louis Strickland; Dr. Ivan Pedrosa, Associate Professor of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds the Jack Reynolds, M.D., Chair in Radiology; Dr. Hak Choy, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology who holds The Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research; and Dr. James Brugarolas, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, and Virginia Murchison Linthicum Endowed Scholar; and other researchers including Stephen Chun, Dr. Nathan Cannon, and Dr. Nathan Kim.
Gerard A. Silvestri, M.D., M.S., a lung cancer pulmonologist at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center who holds the George C. and Margaret M. Hillenbrand Endowed Chair in thoracic oncology, led the cancer pulmonologist at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center who holds the George C. and Margaret M. Hillenbrand Endowed Chair in thoracic oncology, led the Cancer Center who holds the George C. and Margaret M. Hillenbrand Endowed Chair in thoracic oncology, led the study.
«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.
«By using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the study.