Melissa Stern and her boyfriend Jordan had been dating about a year when Melissa was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. The experience they shared helped Melissa through her stressful course of treatment and brought the couple closer together.
Faculty and trainees from Winship will lead sessions and share their latest discoveries at the 114th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Orlando, Fl., April 14-19.
Buchwald and Yu receive Department of Defense grant for breast cancer research
Winship members Zachary Buchwald, MD, PhD, and David S. Yu, MD, PhD, are principal investigators of a new Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense. The $1.2 million grant will support their study, "Elucidating and Exploiting SAMHD1 for Breast Cancer Therapy."
An international team of researchers has bioengineered a synthetic tumor model that could change the game for designing and testing personalized cancer therapies. The study, recently published in Nature Materials, includes authors from Emory, Georgia Tech and Winship.
Madhusmita Behera, PhD, Winship’s chief informatics and data officer. has been named an associate editor of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, a publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The interdisciplinary journal publishes clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related data, information and images.
Winship member Anant Madabhushi, PhD, authored the most-cited article published in Cancer Immunology Research in 2020, according to a new list published by the journal in honor of its 10th anniversary.
In a recent episode of the OncLive On Air podcast, Winship member Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, and colleagues review and discuss research from last month’s 40th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference.
Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology announced three new residents who will be joining the medical physics residency program. Mingdong Fan, PhD, Mandeep Kaur, PhD, and Elahheh Salari, PhD, will begin the three-year training program in July.
Winship, together with Emory University Hospital Midtown, will open a full-service, comprehensive oncology center in Midtown Atlanta. Stop by our open house and take a tour of this brand-new center on Wednesday, May 3, from 4 to 8 p.m.
Join Winship's Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics (DDT) Program on April 28 for a full-day retreat in the Klamon Room of the Claudia Nance Rollins Building. With the theme “Harnessing the Power of Chemistry for Cancer Patients," the retreat will focus on driving collaborations for new and improved cancer therapeutics.
Join the Emory Integrated Genomics Core in the HSRB I Auditorium on April 20, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., to learn how Takara’s Smart-Seq technologies can be used to study full-length single cell transcriptomics.
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