Winship 5K goes virtual for 2020

The 10th annual Winship Win the Fight 5K Run/Walk is going virtual in 2020! This year, participants from all over the world will have the opportunity to fight cancer wherever they are by running, walking, or moving in any way they like, culminating in a week of virtual activities from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3, 2020. Watch a video message from Winship Executive Director Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD and learn more about registering your virtual Winship 5K team.

Imaging core to acquire first 3D STED microscope in Georgia

Neil Anthony, PhD, director of the Emory Integrated Cellular Imaging Core, has been awarded a $1 million High-End Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a powerful new research microscope.

Read receives Ivy Foundation grant

Renee Read, PhD has received the Ivy Foundation Emerging Leader Grant Award. The two-year, $500,000 award will support expanded work on YAP/TAZ function in glioblastoma and a Phase I/II clinical trial of verteporfin in collaboration with Drs. Jeffrey Olson, R. Donald Harvey, and William Read.

Crown-like structures of breast adipose tissue and clinical outcomes

Lauren McCullough, PhD, MPH, Maret Maliniak, MPH, and colleagues assessed potential drivers of crown-like structures in breast adipose tissue among African-American and White women with breast cancer and compared clinical outcomes. Their findings were published June 17 in Breast Cancer Research.

Researchers discover new way to generate anti-tumor T cells for immunotherapy

Hannah Knochelmann (visiting student from the Medical University of South Carolina), working in the lab of Chrystal Paulos, PhD, has discovered a rapid and affordable way to generate potent anti-tumor T cells for immunotherapy. The findings were published June 19 in Cancer Research.

The Cell Conductor

Winship member Karmella Haynes, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is featured in the June issue of Grow magazine, which explores her work developing a synthetic protein to control cancer cells and the challenges of excelling in an overwhelmingly white and male field. (Illustration by Julia Licholai, courtesy of Grow)

Antun honored with Eckman Teaching Award

Ana Antun, MD is the recipient of the 2020 James R. Eckman Teaching Award, an honor given out annually by the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology and selected by the fellows.

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Winship members highlighted by Cell Press

Drs. Curtis Henry and Cimona Hinton, along with colleagues from Emory, Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta, were recognized among America's inspiring Black scientists in Cell Press’s annual list.

Shared Resource Spotlight: Intervention Development, Dissemination and Implementation

Winship's 11 shared resources offer advanced technologies and services to support cancer researchers. The Intervention Development, Dissemination and Implementation (IDDI) Shared Resource provides support for behavioral science research including study design, data collection instrumentation, community-engaged research conduct, qualitative data analysis, and grant proposal or study protocol development.

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Call for Winship Grand Rounds faculty leader

Winship Grand Rounds is seeking a faculty leader to oversee the selection and organization of speakers throughout the academic year. Interested candidates may contact Kimberly Kerstann, PhD by July 1.

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Elkin Lectures to return with web-based talks in August

Winship’s Elkin Lecture Series will return with live, web-based broadcasts on Friday, Aug. 28. The series will be virtual-only through the remainder of 2020.

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Winship welcomes Big Data Academy students

Citizen Science HD's Big Data Academy kicked off the first session of its web-based summer program on June 22. More than a dozen middle school students from across Georgia are taking part in this free, two-week virtual academy that focuses on using real data to understand the causes of cancer. Led by Drs. Adam Marcus, Theresa Gillespie, and Carlos Moreno, and program manager Jackie Valett, MS, Citizen Science HD is supported by an NIH SEPA grant and funding from Winship and the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance. The purpose of the program, which offers a June and a July session, is to promote a more diverse science/STEM workforce by focusing on under-represented groups, including females, minorities, and those in rural areas.

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