Benjamin Levy, M.D., of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, was selected as one of the 2009 recipients of the Young Investigators Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for his study, "Biomarker Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells in Prostate Cancer: Predicting Response to Taxanes: A Pilot Study".
Dr. David Nanus was awarded $100,000 from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to support his research program titled "PSMA-based Microfluidics-Capture of Circulating Prostate Cancer Cells: Study of Microtubule-driven Androgen Receptor Signaling, Gene Fusion, and Gene Expression Profiles with Correlation to Clinical Response to Taxane Therapy".
Drs. John Leonard and Ari Melnick of the Division of Hematology/Oncology were two of only 79 new members recently elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). They will be inducted into the organization at the Annual Joint Meeting of the ASCI in Chicago on April 24th-26th, 2009.
John Leonard, M.D., Associate Director of Clinical Research for the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, was awarded a one-year grant from Genentech to support the development of a Tissue Procurement Core, as part of the newly established Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Scott Tagawa, of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, has received a Clinical Trial Award from the U.S. Department of Defense as part of its Prostate Cancer Research Program. The grant, in the amount of $750,000, will fund a multi-center clinical trial focusing on targeted radiotherapy in prostate cancer over the course of three years.
The Breast Cancer Research Group in the division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine is dedicated to improving and extending the lives of patients. As such, there are several different programs under the umbrella of the Breast Cancer Research Program.
The film is the centerpiece of a new blood disease awareness campaign from the American Society of Hematology (ASH), which was launched in September of this year. More information about the campaign, called "Blood: The Vital Connection", can be found in a recent issue of The Hematologist.
Tomer Mark, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, has been appointed to the first Morton Coleman Assistant Professorship in Multiple Myeloma. The new endowed professorship was established in honor of Dr. Coleman by the generous gift of Linda Rodgers Emory.
The four-day conference featured many exciting oral and poster presentations. These were chosen by peer-reviewers from abstracts submitted prior to the meeting highlighting the latest, most promising developments in scientific research. The Plenary Scientific Session and named lectures on specialized areas provided hematologists with a forum to discuss critical issues in their field.
