Awards

DCI Chief Patient Experience and Safety Officer Thomas LeBlanc, MD, has been named an ASCO Advocacy Champion and chair of the ASCO24 Annual Meeting Education Program Committee.

Three DCI nurses received Friends of Nursing (FON) Excellence Awards at a ceremony held on May 20.

The Duke University School of Medicine is proud to acknowledge faculty members selected as recipients of this year’s School of Medicine faculty awards, which includes three from DCI.

Of 27 faculty from the School of Medicine awarded distinguished professorships this year, 10 are members of Duke Cancer Institute.

Daniel Nussbaum, MD, is one of 12 investigators to have been selected by National Cancer Institute for their Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP).

Betty Tong, MD, BME, MSME, MD, MHS, has won the inaugural STS/WTS “Extraordinary Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery Award.”

DCI leadership presented the coveted DCI Superstar Achievement Awards in December and January.

Retired Colonel and DCI member Judd Moul, MD, has been named to receive a Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Urological Association.

Michael Kastan, MD, PhD, received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Duke Medical Alumni Association on Nov. 4.

Susan Dent, MD, receives the Thomas L. Force Pioneer Award from the International Cardio-Oncology Society (IC-OS).

The 2022 Shingleton Society dinner honored four awardees for their service in advancing the fight against cancer and paid video tribute to Cancer Center founder William Shingleton, MD.

The Radiation Research Society bestowed its highest honor — the Failla Memorial Lecture Award — on Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, executive director of DCI.

DCI radiation oncologist Christine Eyler, MD, PhD, was awarded an NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award for rectal cancer and chemo-radiotherapy research.

The Division of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotheranostics was named a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence; one of only 14 in the U.S.

Eight Duke Cancer Institute nurses were among 37 selected across the PDC and Health System for Duke Friends of Nursing Awards this year.

Kristen Batich, MD, PhD, a Duke Neurosurgery postdoctoral fellow in the Sampson Lab, will research anti-tumor immunity in brain tumors.

Christopher Counter, PhD, associate director of Basic Research, is a member of a group receiving an international Cancer Grand Challenges Grant to investigate origins of cancer.

Gloria Bass, MA, has been a part of the Duke Health family for 41 years, including 26 years at DCI.

Co-leader of the DCI Melanoma Disease Group Georgia Beasley, MD, MHSc, is among 40 recipients of a Young Physician-Scientist Award from The American Society for Clinical Investigation.

DCI health services researcher Devon Check, PhD, is co-PI on an NIA grant to study risks of co-prescribed opioids & BZDs in older cancer patients.

An endowed professorship for David Harpole, Jr., MD, will support his ongoing translational and clinical research in lung cancer.

Donald McDonnell, PhD, associate director for Translational Research, DCI, receives prestigious St. Patrick's Day Irish science medal for contributions to academia and industry.

In a lot of ways, Susan Blackwell (Crawford), MHS, PA-C’89, and the physician assistant profession have grown up together.

The $50,000 grant will support research by Chuan-Yuan Li, DSc, into the ability of cholesterol-lowering drugs to boost cancer-drug immunotherapies.

“This is really the thing we look forward to all year and we weren’t going to let the pandemic get in the way this year,” said DCI exec. director Michael Kastan, MD, PhD.

Furong Huang PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wang Lab, received a Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Early Investigator Award.

First presented in 1987, The William W. Shingleton Award is DCI’s highest volunteer honor. Over the past 35 years, DCI has honored more than 90 individuals with this award.

The metastatic breast cancer research grants, made possible by Susan G. Komen, bring together patient advocates and DCI & UNC Lineberger investigators.

The $3 million National Science Foundation grant is for training Master’s and PhD students at Duke in engineering, computer science, data science, & surgical technologies.

Dukes receives two large grants totaling nearly $12 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) as part of its new Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium.

Hai Yan, MD, PhD, was awarded the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience for identifying genetic mutations linked to gliomas.

The $1.25 million grant from the Cancer Research Institute will support brain tumor immunotherapy research

The FASTRO designation honor recognizes exceptional service to the field of radiation oncology and cancer care.

Oncology faculty and providers among 2021 Duke Clinical Leadership Program 2021 graduates, including the winning project team.

An NIH grant awarded to Greg Palmer, PhD, will fund a micro CT/micro irradiator for the Radiation Oncology Research Program.

Christopher Counter, PhD, Devon Noonan, PhD, MPH, Charles Gersbach, PhD, Fang-Fang Yin, PhD, Sue Jinks-Robertson, Deborah Muoio, PhD, awarded distinguished professorships.

Zhao Zhang, PhD, is one of 22 scholars (early-career junior faculty) nationwide this year to receive this 4-year, $300,000 grant award.

One of the Neil L. Spector Art of Medicine awardees is DCI member Kimberly Johnson, MD, MHS.

After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the annual DCI Superstar Awards are back. Submit your nominations.

Duke University Hospital Honored oncology nurse Taylor Jones with the hospital's first DAISY Award for extraordinary nurses.

Their winning article was published in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics in April, 2020.

Research study participants encouraged Jessica Jin to pursue a career in nursing. After four years providing care to oncology patients at Duke, she’s won a national award.

Duke Professor Emeritus Joseph Odell Moore, MD, to be recognized with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award on May 14.

Renowned DCI neurosurgeon-scientist Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, is one of three SoM faculty members to be inducted this year into ASCI.

Congrats to Lucy Boyce Kennedy, MD & Divya Natesan, MD (right) who each received a Conquer Cancer 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Award!

DCI member Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, elected to National Academy of Sciences.

DCI clinicians raised more than $3,500 for Lincoln Community Health Center to support free cancer screening & primary care appointments

DCI faculty Thomas Leblanc, MD, MA, MHS, FAAHPM, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

DCI member Sue Jinks-Robertson, PhD, vice-chair, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology examines yeast DNA to learn about cancer.