Winship Hematologists Gather for ASH Meeting in Atlanta

Winship physicians and researchers forged through wintry conditions to participate in the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Dec. 9-12. Pictured: Drs. Larry Boise, Vikas Gupta, Benjamin Barwick, R. Donald Harvey, Mala Shanmugam, Jonathan Kaufman, and Sagar Lonial.

A Giant Leap Forward for DNA Nanotechnology

As reported in Nature, Yonggang Ke, PhD and collaborators from Harvard's Wyss Institute have developed a DNA nanotechnology platform that could help researchers engineer the next generation of cancer drugs. Ke, whose research is supported by Winship philanthropic and pilot funding, co-developed the first DNA brick platform as a Harvard post-doctoral fellow.

Lonial Honored by Indo-American Cancer Association

Sagar Lonial, MD, Winship chief medical officer and chair of Emory's Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, received the Indo-American Cancer Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Hematology-Oncology on Dec. 9 in Atlanta. Pictured: Lonial (right) with IACA President Swaminathan Iyer, MD.

Curran Honored by Kiwanis Club

Winship Executive Director Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD received the "golden rule" recognition from the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta. Curran spoke to the group on Dec. 5 about what it means for Winship to be a National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Pictured: Curran (center) with Kiwanis Club President Blake Young and Angela Cassidy.

Winship Specialists Selected for EM-ProLEAD Cohort

Drs. Thomas Cash, Xiaoxian (Bill) Li, Suchita Pakkala, Clementino Solares and nurse practitioner Elise Hitron were named to the 2018 Emory Medicine Professional Leadership Enrichment and Development (EM-ProLEAD) program.

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Desai Named IEEE Fellow

Winship member Jaydev Desai, PhD, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to medical and swarm robotics.

People Behind CCC

Winship's new National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center designation is due in part to the Shared Resources, including Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, which are integral to scientific discovery. The Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource provides collaboration and services including clinical, laboratory, population and molecular cancer study design and analysis. Pictured: Yuan Liu, Felicia West, Manali Rupji, Chao Zhang, Zhengjia (Nelson) Chen, Jeffrey Switchenko, Jeanne Kowalski (BBISR Director), Hsiao-Rong Chen, and Bhakti Dwivedi.

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Winship Welcomes New Nursing Staff

Suzie Allen MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS, OCN is the new oncology clinical nurse specialist at Winship on the Clifton Road campus. Ramie Tucker, MA, MSN, FNP-C joins Winship as a new nurse practitioner in the ambulatory infusion center.

Winship Social Worker Honored

Winship social worker Avril Phillips received the Professional of the Year "Golden Apple" Award from CEU Creations, a continuing education organization for health care professionals. Pictured: Phillips (left) with CEU Creations President Anne McSweeney.

LEO Study Team Gathers in Atlanta

Winship hosted the annual Lymphoma Epidemiology of Outcomes (LEO) study meeting Dec. 5-7 in Atlanta. Nearly 100 lymphoma researchers from leading cancer centers around the country joined Winship's Christopher Flowers, MD and Mayo Clinic's James Cerhan, MD, principal investigators of the Lymphoma Epidemiology of Outcomes (LEO) study. LEO's goal is to enroll over 13,000 patients to create a unique national resource with information on treating and surviving lymphoma.

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