News Archive: 2023
To view Cancer Center news archived by month, click below:
- Hong Zhu, PhD, Co-Authors New Book About Pragmatic Clinical Trial Design
- Breast-Cancer Decision Aid for High-Risk Women Earns Positive Reviews
- Venetoclax with standard chemo-immunotherapy induced a high response rate as first-line treatment for mantle cell lymphoma and was generally well tolerated, a PrECOG early-phase trial shows
- Nao Hagiwara, PhD, Examines Racial Health Disparities in New Book
- Jennifer Lobo, PhD, and Stephen Culp, MD, PhD, Awarded NIH National Cancer Institute Grant
- For Breast Cancer, Can Focused Ultrasound Overcome Immunotherapy’s Limitations?
- Inside Cancer Careers Podcast Features Amy Bouton, PhD
- UVA Cancer Center’s director, Dr. Tom Loughran, highlights 10 years and a promising path forward
- Cancer Center Researchers Seek to Harness Wearable Devices to Tailor Medical Treatments
- The Secret to Better Cancer Care Could Already Be on Your Wrist
- Todd Bauer, MD, Elected to Stephen Hurt Watts Endowed Professorship in Surgery
- Jianguo Tao, MD, PhD, Awarded $3 Million to Research CAR-Y Immunotherapy in Treating Mantle Cell Lymphoma
- Renowned Cancer Biology Researcher to Chair UVA Department of Dermatology
- Commentary: VCU, UVA Centers Leading State’s Fight Against Cancer (subscription)
- Private Philanthropic Support Enabled by Urology Chair Kirsten Greene, MD, Advances Prostate Cancer Care and Patient Access
- Cancer Center to Host National Leaders in Gynecologic Oncology Sept. 18
- New Drug a Breakthrough for Brain Tumor that Strikes the Young
- Anne Kenworthy, PhD, Elected to Council of the Biophysical Society
- Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, Saluted for Cancer Center ‘Transformation’ on 10th Anniversary as Director
- UVA Cancer Center STRIVE Program Grows in Second Year
- David Kashatus, PhD, Awarded Lustgarten Foundation 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Program Grant
- Kristin Anderson, PhD, Earned K22 Transition Career Development Award
- UVA Cancer Center Seeks Innovative Ideas to Improve Care, Reduce Health Disparities
- Cancer Center’s New Genome Engineering Shared Resource Offers CRISPR-Based Editing and Expertise
- Allan Tsung, MD, Awarded $2 Million Grant to Study How Exercise Therapy Before Cancer Surgery Can Improve Outcomes
- The Importance of Blood Vessels in Cancer Tumors
- Three School of Medicine Faculty Named 2023-24 Fellows for National Leadership Programs
- Mark Kester Symposium Will Honor His Legacy as Researcher and National Expert
- UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Honors 12 Faculty and Staff with Phenomenal Women Award
- Cancer Discoveries Could Enhance Immunotherapy, Breast Cancer Care
- Grand Challenges to Fight Cancer in Rural Va., Support Youth Mental Health, Democracy
- Ahmad Jomaa, PhD, Named 2023 Searle Scholar
- Children’s Cancer Research Fund Backs UVA Leukemia Research
- Unlocking the Mysteries of Neurological Disease
- With Youngkin’s Support, UVA-Born Company Announces New Charlottesville Plant
- Renowned Researcher in Physiology to Chair UVA’s Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
- Linda Martin, MD, One of Only 12 Investigators Nationwide Leading Phase 3 Trial to Test Use of Pafolacianine
- Troubling Disparities Found in Esophageal Cancer Outcomes
- UVA Cancer Center Backs 5 Efforts to Address Cancer-Related Health Disparities
- Marquita Taylor, PhD, Says Ingraining DEI in Cancer Research is Personal
- American Cancer Society Supports Promising UVA Research
- 5 Ways the University of Virginia Takes the Fight to Cancer
- Support for Phase 1 Clinical Trials
- Lines of Hope
- Training Next-Generation Cancer Researchers
- A Vital Investment in Research
- Leading the Charge to Blood Cancer Discoveries
- Department of Defense Presents Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs at School of Medicine
- Benjamin W. Purow, MD, Secures Two R01 Grants for $4 Million to Study Glioblastoma and Will Co-Lead a Project for the $12 Million NIH-Funded SASCO Center U54 Grant
- UVA Honors Faculty for Their Research and Scholarship
- Edward Engelman, PhD Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- A Sound You Can’t Hear but May One Day Change Your Life
- Todd Stukenberg, PhD Awarded $3.3 Million Grant to Study Mechanisms of Mitotic Regulation
- Firas El Chaer, MD Discusses the Winter Tridemic on the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Podcast
- Hui Li, PhD Awarded $2.5 Million Grant for Research Targeting AVIL, a Novel Oncogene in Rhabdomyosarcoma
- UVA, Community Health Centers Expand Cancer Screenings for Underserved
- Roger Anderson, PhD Presented American Cancer Society Researcher of the Year Award
- 1,000th Stem Cell Transplant Marks a Decade of Dedication and Innovation