Join the Winship leadership team for a town hall meeting in person in Winship’s John H. Kauffman Auditorium or via Zoom on Tuesday, March 14 from 5 to 6 p.m. Hear updates on clinical and research advances, new research partnerships and progress on the new Winship at Emory Midtown cancer care center opening this May.
Winship, the Atlanta Hawks and the Prostate Cancer Foundation teamed up for the fifth annual Black History Month Assist Challenge, raising $144,000 to support prostate cancer research and promote awareness about prostate cancer risk and early detection. Pictured (left to right): David Lee (Hawks); Keith Shoates and Charles Ryan, MD (Prostate Cancer Foundation); Suresh Ramalingam, MD, and Martin Sanda, MD (Winship); and Harry the Hawk.
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, chair of the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology, spoke with OncLive about the 40th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, held March 2-5. Jagsi discussed her research on the potential to deescalate or omit radiation therapy, which she presented during a plenary session.
Winship nurse practitioner La-Urshalar Brock, MSN, FNP-BC, CNM, spoke with Oncology Nursing News about testing for HER2, an increasingly relevant tool to inform treatment decisions for patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Winship is hosting the National Association of Cancer Center Development Officers (NACCDO) and the Public Affairs & Marketing Network (PAMN) Conference, April 24-27, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and is looking for volunteers in a variety of areas. Sign up to volunteer for 8 hours total and receive a complimentary conference registration for the entire event, including meals.
Below are four selected Winship publications out of 34 published over the past week:
Hatit MZC, Dobrowolski CN, Lokugamage MP, Loughrey D, Ni H, Zurla C, Da Silva Sanchez AJ, Radmand A, Huayamares SG, Zenhausern R, Paunovska K, Peck HE, Kim J, Sato M, Feldman JI, Rivera MA, Cristian A, Kim Y, Santangelo PJ, Dahlman JE. Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery.Nature Chemistry. 2023; PubMed PMID: 36864143.
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