Category: Oncology
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: July 1 鈥� July 31, 2021
Division of Infectious Diseases Ed Browne, PhD, received a $4-million聽NIH grant to study聽the effects of cannabis use on the HIV reservoir. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded聽Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a 2021聽Clinical Scientist Development Award聽for his research proposal entitled, 鈥淕etting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda,鈥� which aims at reducin … Read more
ASCO Grant Supports Charlot鈥檚 Study of An App to Encourage Black Women to Participate in Breast Cancer Research
Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc, assistant professor of medicine in the division of oncology and member of the 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center was named the 2021 recipient of the Conquer Cancer Advanced Clinical Research Award for Diversity and Inclusion. The honor includes a three-year, $450,000 grant from Conquer Cancer, the American Socie … Read more
Advances Propel Lung Cancer Paradigms Forward to Improved Outcomes and Quality of Life
Jared Weiss, MD Among a plethora of novel immunotherapeutic and targeted agents, the treatment landscapes for small cell lung cancer and non鈥搒mall cell lung cancer have witnessed a rapid expansion that has led to improved survival and quality of life for patients, including a wider range of patients who harbor molecular abnormalities. In an interview with OncLive庐 during an Insti … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: June 1 鈥� June 30, 2021
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Klara Klein, MD, PhD,聽received a聽physician-scientist award聽to cultivate her career as a translational clinician scientist. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resident聽Corey Ketchem, MD, received the聽Bondurant-Ehringhaus Award聽to support research聽with聽Evan Dellon, MD, MPH, on eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and other esophageal dise … Read more
We Usually Don’t Vote on Intubation
Christopher Jensen, MD, Katherine “Alex” Despotes, MD, and Benjamin DeMarco, MD Christopher Jensen, MD, a hematology-oncology fellow, with Katherine “Alex” Despotes, MD, and Benjamin DeMarco, MD, fellows in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, recently published “We Usually Don’t Vote on Intubation” in the Chest Journal. Their essay tells the story of a patient w … Read more
Two Medicine Scholars Named to Physician-Scientist Training Program
Klara Klein, MD, PhD, and Shetal Patel, MD, PhD Klara Klein, MD, PhD, a fellow in the division of endocrinology and metabolism, and Shetal Patel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of oncology, have received physician-scientist awards to cultivate their careers as translational clinician scientists. As part of the聽Forward Together聽Strategic Plan, the 黑料网 Sch … Read more
Ray Receives ASCO Conquer Cancer Grant Award
Emily Ray, MD, MPH Emily Ray, MD, MPH, has received a three-year Conquer Cancer Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology for a study that will evaluate and validate the use of a prognostic calculator for 30-day mortality in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The project aims to improve outcomes for patients by providing evidence-based estimates … Read more
Triangle Colon Cancer Survivors Encourage Earlier Screening As Panel Drops Recommended Age to 45
Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH ABC-11 news reports how colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths, and that health officials are concerned about increases in younger people. Hanna Sanoff, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of oncology, and clinical medical director at the N.C. Cancer Hospital and 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, said sh … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: April 1 鈥� April 30, 2021
Division of Geriatric Medicine John Batsis, MD, was awarded聽$225,000 from the NIH鈥檚 National Institute on Aging聽to develop and test a remote-sensing resistance band exercise system with a team of researchers from Dartmouth. Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, was awarded a 5-year K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award聽by the NIH鈥檚 National Institute on Aging for 鈥淒eprescribing … Read more
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G1 Therapeutics Announces Publication of Pooled Results from Pivotal Clinical Program of COSELA鈩� (trilaciclib) in Clinical Lung Cancer
Jared Weiss, MD G1 Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage oncology company, announced that the peer-reviewed journal of Clinical Lung Cancer published the final pooled results from three clinical trials of COSELA鈩� (trilaciclib) in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC). 鈥淐ancer patients have two major sources of physical suffering – the cancer itself and the side effect … Read more
Abdou Receives Innovation Pilot Award
Yara Abdou, MD The Center for Health Innovation has award Yara Abdou, MD, assistant professor in the division of oncology, an “Innovation Pilot Award” for “Investigating Survivin As a New Target to Improve Outcomes of Breast Cancer in Black Women.” Breast cancer is the second leading cause of female cancer mortality in the United States. While recent research and treatment advanc … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: March 1 鈥� March 31, 2021
Division of Hematology Patrick Ellsworth, MD, received a Research Restart Award from the American Society of Hematology, which helps ensure research continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigel Mackman, PhD, received a grant award for 鈥淭issue factor-dependent coagulation in thrombosis and immune responses鈥� from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Division of Infe … Read more