| | | Executive Director Suresh Ramalingam, MD, shares his gratitude for the Winship community in a Thanksgiving message. | Read Message |
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| | Owen named Winship's chief marketing and communications officer | Jennifer R. Owen joins Winship on Nov. 22 as chief marketing and communications officer. Owen, who previously served as VCU Massey's senior director of PR and marketing communications, will lead Winship's communications team in promoting the institute's research, treatment, and educational mission.
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| | | | Desai honored with Peterson Professorship | Jaydev Desai, PhD, is one of two inaugural recipients of the Peterson Professorships from the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech. Resources from the Peterson Professorship will help support Desai's robotics research, new collaborations, and undergraduate and graduate training.
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| | Pediatric team receives Survivorship Champion’s Prize | Ann Mertens, PhD, MS, Karen Effinger, MD, MS, Jordan Marchak, PhD, ABPP, and colleagues from the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, were honored with the 2021 Survivorship Champion’s Prize from Children’s Cancer Cause, in recognition of the team’s innovative work to provide comprehensive, integrated care for childhood cancer survivors.
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| | | | Winship researchers receive SITC Young Investigator Awards | Postdoctoral fellow Sruthi Ravindranathan, PhD, MS, and doctoral students Caroline Jansen and Nataliya Prokhnevska, are the recipients of Young Investigator Awards from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC). The three travel awards recognize their outstanding oral abstracts and poster presentations at SITC’s 2021 annual meeting.
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| | Ramalingam interviewed for Medicine Mentors podcast | In an interview with the Medicine Mentors podcast, Suresh Ramalingam, MD, talks about his journey from Chennai to Atlanta and how identifying your strengths, knowing your gaps, and doing your homework can initiate meaningful mentorships and propel your career in medicine.
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| | | | Torres featured in Hoosier investigator spotlight | This month, Hoosier Cancer Research Network (HCRN) is highlighting Mylin Torres, MD, sponsor-investigator of a multi-institutional phase II study to evaluate efficacy and safety combining talazoparib, radiation and atezolizumab among patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer.
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| | | Winship's Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Center completed its 7,000th stem cell/bone marrow transplant at the end of October. Read more about the history and impact of the Winship BMT program in a 2016 article commemorating the program's 5000th transplant. | Read More |
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| | | | | Call for proposals: Emory PeRSEVERE fund | Emory University School of Medicine's Program for Retaining, Supporting, and EleVating Early-career Researchers at Emory (PeRSEVERE) is a one-year supplemental fund that will support 10-13 early-career faculty with family caregiving responsibilities or other issues caused by COVID-19. Applications are due Jan. 18.
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| | | | | Sign up for the Winship Adopt-A-Family Program | Winship social services and volunteer services are looking for teams to sign up for the annual Holiday Adopt-A-Family Program and help Winship patients with their holiday shopping. Sign up today to be connected with a patient's Amazon wish list and have gifts shipped directly to the recipient.
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| Below are four selected Winship publications out of 71 published over the past week: |
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| Omer SB, Benjamin RM, Brewer NT, Buttenheim AM, Callaghan T, Caplan A, Carpiano RM, Clinton C, DiResta R, Elharake JA, Flowers LC, Galvani AP, Lakshmanan R, Maldonado YA, McFadden SM, Mello MM, Opel DJ, Reiss DR, Salmon DA, Schwartz JL, Sharfstein JM, Hotez PJ. Promoting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA. Lancet (London, England). 2021; PubMed PMID: 34793741. | View in PubMed |
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| Bilen MA, Rini BI, Voss MH, Larkin J, Haanen JBAG, Albiges L, Pagliaro LC, Voog EG, Lam ET, Kislov N, McGregor BA, Lalani AA, Huang B, di Pietro A, Krulewicz S, Robbins PB, Choueiri TK. Association of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Efficacy of First-Line Avelumab Plus Axitinib vs Sunitinib in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Enrolled in the Phase 3 JAVELIN Renal 101 Trial. Clinical Cancer Research: an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2021; PubMed PMID: 34789480. | View in PubMed |
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| Deng J, Lancelot M, Jajosky R, Deng Q, Deeb K, Saakadze N, Gao Y, Jaye D, Liu S, Stowell SR, Cheng L, Roback JD. Erythropoietic Properties of Human iPSC-derived RBCs in Immunodeficient Mice. American Journal of Hematology. 2021; PubMed PMID: 34779029. | View in PubMed |
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| Saad H, Bray DP, McMahon JT, Philbrick BD, Dawoud RA, Douglas JM, Adeagbo S, Yarmoska SK, Agam M, Chow J, Pradilla G, Olson JJ, Alawieh A, Hoang K. Permanent Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion in Adults with Posterior Fossa Tumors: Incidence and Predictors. Neurosurgery. 2021; 89(6):987-996. PubMed PMID: 34561703; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8600168. | View in PubMed |
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| A selection of media stories and news coverage for Winship Cancer Institute. |
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