Winship Roundup | March 28, 2022

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March 28, 2022

Registration is now open for the annual Winship Oncology Nursing Symposium, “Charting Your Path as an Oncology Nurse: Tales from the Trenches,” will be held Saturday, June 11. The virtual continuing education program, which offers up to 20 contact hours, is complimentary for Emory employees and discounted for participants from other institutions.

Women's History Month Q&A with Ludimila Cavalcante, MD

This Women’s History Month, Winship asked faculty members to share their perspectives on working at Winship and advice for other women in the workforce. Ludimila Cavalcante, MD, a medical oncologist specializing in early drug development, talks about who inspires her, the importance of listening to colleagues and keeping an open-door policy, and essential tools to learn early in your career.

Ramalingam speaks to Georgia House committee

Winship Executive Director Suresh Ramalingam, MD, discussed the role of biomarkers in improving cancer outcomes during the March 24 meeting of the Georgia House of Representatives’ Health and Human Services Committee. Afterwards, the committee passed House Resolution 998 to support awareness of and access to biomarker testing in Georgia. Photo credit: Georgia CORE.

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Miller-Kleinhenz receives K99/R00 grant

Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in McCullough lab, has received a National Cancer Institute Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00). The grant will support her project, "Investigating Socio-Structural Determinants of Health and the Tumor Epigenome to Understand the Etiology of Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer."

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McCullough and Moubadder featured on WABE's Closer Look

Winship member Lauren E. McCullough, PhD, MSPH, and doctoral student Leah Moubadder appeared on WABE’s “Closer Look” radio show with Rose Scott. McCullough and Moubadder discussed research into the connection between redlining and environmental hazards in East Atlanta and redlining’s connection to breast cancer.

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Why screening for colorectal cancer is starting younger

National guidelines recommend a first screening for colorectal cancer at age 45, or earlier if you have a family history. Sonali Sakaria, MD, clinical chief of gastroenterology at Emory Decatur Hospital, explains the recent changes to the guidelines and what to expect for your first colonoscopy.

Construction progresses on Winship at Emory Midtown

The glass exterior is almost complete at the Winship at Emory Midtown facility currently under construction. The new building, uniquely designed to deliver personalized care aligned with cancer research, is set to open in spring 2023.

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Call for proposals: NCI IMAT program

The National Cancer Institute’s Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies program funds high-risk, high-innovation technology platforms and approaches. The IMAT program solicits applications under the R21/R61 and R33 funding mechanisms for three rounds of review each year.

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Winship Gala set for Nov. 19

The next Winship Gala will be held at the St. Regis Atlanta on Saturday, Nov. 19. The fundraising event, co-chaired by Margaret R. Martin and Anne T. Mori, will celebrate the physicians, investigators and teams who put the patient at the forefront of their work every day.

Below are four selected Winship publications out of 63 published over the past week:

Xu W, Yan Y, Artsimovitch I, Dunlap D, Finzi L. Positive supercoiling favors transcription elongation through lac repressor-mediated DNA loops. Nucleic Acids Research. 2022; 50(5):2826-2835. PubMed PMID: 35188572; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8934669.

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Kim J, Francis DM, Sestito LF, Archer PA, Manspeaker MP, O'Melia MJ, Thomas SN. Thermosensitive hydrogel releasing nitric oxide donor and anti-CTLA-4 micelles for anti-tumor immunotherapy. Nature Communications. 2022; 13(1):1479. PubMed PMID: 35304456.

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Fabrizio VA, Boelens JJ, Mauguen A, Baggott C, Prabhu S, Egeler E, Mavroukakis S, Pacenta H, Phillips CL, Rossoff J, Stefanski HE, Talano JA, Moskop A, Margossian SP, Verneris MR, Myers GD, Karras NA, Brown PA, Qayed M, Hermiston M, Satwani P, Krupski C, Keating AK, Wilcox R, Rabik CA, Chinnabhandar V, Kunicki M, Goksenin AY, Mackall CL, Laetsch TW, Schultz LM, Curran KJ. Optimal fludarabine lymphodepletion is associated with improved outcomes after CAR T-cell therapy. Blood Advances. 2022; 6(7):1961-1968. PubMed PMID: 34788386.

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Marchak JG, Kegler MC, Meacham LR, Mertens AC, Effinger KE. Cancer-Related Barriers to Health Behaviors Among Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Pediatric Cancer and Their Families. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 2022; PubMed PMID: 35325580.

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