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November 16, 2020
 
 
 

Woodruff Leadership Academy names 2021 fellows

Cam Escoffery, Doug Graham, Christine Kempton, Lana Uhrig, Allan Pickens, and Christina Wu are among the 22 fellows selected for the 2021 Woodruff Leadership Academy (WLA), a professional development program within Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center.
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Esiashvili named president of Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society
Natia Esiashvili, MD has been named to a two-year term as president of the Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS). The society works to establish world-wide standards, education, and advocacy in the field.
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Read to present research at Society for Neuro-oncology meeting
The Society for Neuro-oncology virtual meeting will take place Nov. 19-21. Renee Read, PhD will present an on-demand abstract, "YAP/TAZ transcriptional co-activators create therapeutic vulnerability to verteporfin in EGFR mutant glioblastoma."
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Winship providers honored by patient experience team

Emory Healthcare's patient experience team announced providers who achieved gold, diamond, and platinum level honors based on patient surveys in fiscal year 2020. Honorees include Winship providers (top row, from left to right): Joe Sharma, MD, Suephy Chen, MD, MPH, Jonathon Cohen, MD, MS, Glen Balch, MD, Leonard Heffner, MD, Christopher Deibert, MD, Tony Eng, MD, Kimberly Curseen, MD, Jonathan Kaufman, MD, Snehal G. Patel, MD, MS, Chad Ritenour, MD, Virginia Shaffer, MD, Benjamin Stoff, MD, Patrick Sullivan, MD, and Seth Force, MD. Not pictured: Gail Adjanasuknart, NP.
 
 
 
     
 
 
Winship to host virtual Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium
The Winship Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium will be held virtually on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Experts will lead case-based discussions and didactic lectures that address the latest procedures, technology, and medical treatments, including multi-disciplinary care approaches and clinical trials.
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Winship names new Grand Rounds faculty leaders
Drs. Kimberly Hoang and Walid Shaib have been named as the new faculty leaders for Winship Grand Rounds. Hoang and Shaib will oversee the selection and coordination of speakers to cultivate an engaging agenda of internal and external experts throughout the academic year.
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Take a virtual tour of Winship's new STED microscope
Join the integrated Cellular Imaging Core on Nov. 19 at noon to learn about the recently installed STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscope, and how it provides real-time, super-resolution data.
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Call for proposals: Winship Invest$ pilot grants
Winship Invest$ is now accepting proposals for the fall 2020 pilot grant cycle. One-year projects with budgets of up to $50,000 are invited in key strategic areas. Letters of intent are due Nov. 20.
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Winship holds virtual gala
The 2020 Winship Gala, which took place virtually on Nov. 13, has raised over $1.36 million so far. Watch a video from the event featuring patient stories, a tribute to John Kauffman, and the story of The Winship Way.
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Winship Adopt-A-Family Program goes virtual
For this year's Winship Holiday Adopt-A-Family Program, donors can shop from a patient's online wish list and have gifts shipped directly to the recipient. Sign up today to help a patient in need with their holiday.
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Wirth to deliver Winship virtual Grand Rounds
Winship virtual Grand Rounds lectures continue on Nov. 18 with Lori Wirth, MD from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. Wirth will present, "Advanced Thyroid Cancer: A Poster Child for Precision Oncology."
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Spangle to deliver virtual Elkin Lecture
Winship virtual Elkin lectures continue on Nov. 20 with Jennifer Spangle, PhD, assistant professor in Emory's Department of Radiation Oncology. Spangle will present, "PI3K-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer."
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November 16-17 - Symposium (virtual)
Winship Scientific Symposium - "Addressing Disparities in Cancer Outcomes in Georgia"
 
 
 

November 16 - Cancer Biology Seminar (virtual)
Lenore Monterroza - "Effect of Standard of Care Drugs on Tumor Membrane Vesicle Vaccines for Triple Negative Breast Cancer"
 
 
 

November 17 - Panel Discussion (virtual)
Winship Career Development Panel for Trainees and Students
 
 
 

November 17 - AiR (Advances in Research) Conference (virtual)
Deborah DeRyckere, PhD - "Development of MERTK Inhibitors for Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia" & Amanda Harrington, MD - "The Role of Nup214 in CALM-AF10 Leukemogenesis"
 
 
 

November 17 - Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program Meeting (virtual)
Karen Grinzaid, MS, CGC, CCRC - "Improving Access to Cancer Genetic Testing: The Road to Prevention and Early Diagnosis"
 
 
 

November 18 - Grand Rounds (virtual)
Lori Worth, MD - "Advanced Thyroid Cancer: A Poster Child for Precision Oncology"
 
 
 

November 18 - Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Program Meeting (virtual)
Andrew L. Hong, MD - "Using Functional Genomics to Elucidate and Target SWI/SNF Altered Cancers"
 
 
 

November 18 - Radiation Oncology Research Interest Talk (virtual)
Mark McDonald, MD - "2-year Update on Emory Proton Therapy Center"
 
 
 

November 19 - Surgical Grand Rounds (virtual)
Christina Wu, MD - "Colorectal Cancer: New Biomarkers Beyond Chemotherapy"
 
 
 

November 19 - ICI Microscopy Demo (virtual)
STED Microscope Webinar presented by the Integrated Cellular Imaging (ICI) Core
 
 
 

November 20 - Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics (DDT) Program Meeting (virtual)
James Dahlman, PhD - "Delivering RNA Outside the Liver by Testing Thousands of Nanoparticles Directly in Mice"
 
 
 

November 18 - Virtual Workshop
Winship Shared Resources Virtual Workshop for Trainees
 
 
 

November 20 - Elkin Lecture (virtual)
Jennifer Spangle, PhD - "PI3K-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer"
 
 
 

 
 
 
     
 
 
Winship Federal Grant Stream
Winship's Federal Grant Stream provides a daily updated list of cancer-related funding from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
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Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
View a selection of Winship pilot grants, institutional awards, and external funding sources and learn how to apply.
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