Gregory B. Lesinski, PhD, MPH, Winship’s associate director for basic research, has been named the John Kauffman Family Professor. The professorship is dedicated to advancing the understanding and treatment of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
Winship member Haydn T. Kissick, PhD, has received a five-year, $1.25 million STAR program grant from the Cancer Research Institute to study how T cells can help protect the body against cancer. The STAR award gives mid-career scientists the freedom and flexibility to pursue high-risk, high-reward cancer immunotherapy projects.
Winship member Aparna H. Kesarwala, MD, PhD, has received a three-year R21 Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for her project "Early-Stage Clinical Trial of AI-Driven CBCT-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer." The study’s long-term goal is to use real-time adaptive radiation therapy to improve tumor control and decrease toxicities among patients receiving radiation therapy for lung cancer.
Yongdong Su, PhD, MS, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Winship member Andrew Hong, MD, has received a Kidney Cancer Research Program Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellowship Award from the U.S. Department of Defense. The three-year award will support Su’s project, "Novel therapeutic targets of renal medullary carcinoma."
Now in its fourth year, the peer-reviewed journal NAR Cancer, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Winship member William S. Dynan, PhD, reached a milestone this week by receiving its first impact factor from Clarivate's Web of Science. The impact factor of 5.1 places it in the top half of all oncology journals and comparable to several of the more established basic science journals in the oncology space.
Winship members Nabil F. Saba, MD, and Nicole C. Schmitt, MD, will participate in the AACR-AHNS Head and Neck Cancer Conference in Montreal, July 7-8. Saba is a panelist for a clinical trial design workshop, and Schmitt is the chair of a clinical trials plenary session.
The 2023 UGA-Winship Cancer Research Summit will take place on July 17 in Athens, Ga. Faculty, students and trainees will share research on emerging topics that span basic, translational, clinical and population sciences in oral and poster presentations. Submit an abstract by July 7.
The 14th Annual Winship Oncology Nursing Symposium will be held at the Atlanta Evergreen Lakeside Resort, Aug. 25-26. The symposium will cover some of the latest trends in oncology practice and care, with sessions led by experts in the field. Attendees will be awarded up to 18.0 contact hours by the Emory Nursing Professional Development Center.
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