September Newsmakers

This Month on the DCI Blog

50 Years of Gynecologic Cancer Care & Innovation (DCI Blog)
Features Andrew Berchuck, MD; Angeles Secord, MD, MSc; Brittany Davidson, MD; Evan Myers, MD, MPH; Haley Moss, MD; Laura Havrilesky, MD, MHSc; Megan Huchko, MD; Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD; Rafael Gonzalez, MD; Paula Lee, MD; Rebecca Previs, MD; Mercy Asiedu, PhD; Jeffrey Marks, MD; Kelly Marcom, MD

WATCH: A Candid Conversation With Black Men About Prostate Health (DCI Blog)
Features Angelo Moore, PhD, RN, NE-BC

Nanorattles Shake Up New Possibilities for Disease Detection (DCI Blog/Pratt)
Features Tuan Vo-Dinh, PhD

Looking for an On-Ramp: Delicate Conversations in Terminal Ovarian Cancer (DCI Blog)
Features Brittany Davidson, MD, and Laura Havrilesky, MD

Valdivia Named Chair of Immunology (Duke University School of Medicine/DCI Blog)
Features Raphael Valdivia, PhD

Ride Hard Breathe Easy Classic Raises $15K (DCI Blog)
Features Betty Tong, MD

ICYMI at Duke

DCI Researchers Launch DREAM Trial (Duke Department of Medicine)
Features April Salama, MD, and Brent Hanks, MD, PhD

Halabi Receives Janet L. Norwood Award (Duke University School of Medicine)
Susan Halabi, PhD

Maggie DiNome, MD, Appointed Section Chief of Breast Surgery (Duke Department of Surgery)
Features Maggie DiNome, MD

WATCH: Closing A Racial Divide in Cancer Care (Duke Global Health Institute)
Features Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, and Rebecca Previs, MD

MISSION: INTERCEPTION — Creating Better Ways to Stop Cancer in Its Tracks (Duke University School of Medicine Magnify)
Features Austin Eckhoff, MD; Meira Epplein, PhD; Katherine Garman, MD, MHS; Steve Patierno, PhD; Evan Meyers, MD, MPH; Peter Allen, MD; Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH

López Finds Community in Pathology (Duke Pathology)
Features Giselle Y. López, MD, PhD

DCI Surgeons Perform their 100th Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Procedure (Duke Health)
Features Michael Lidsky, MD

Fertility Preservation Helps Breast Cancer Survivor Susan VanNess Grow Her Family (Duke Health)
Features Stacy Telloni, MD

Duke Employees Share Their Stories of Breast Cancer Survival (Working at Duke)
Features Gretchen Kimmick, MD, MS

Hwang and Dunn Receive Duke Science & Technology Seed Grant (Duke University School of Medicine)
Features Shelly Hwang, MD, MHS, and Jessilyn Dunn, PhD

Zou Named Chair of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology (Duke University School of Medicine)
Features Lee Zou, PhD

WATCH: Duke Cancer Day with the Carolina Mudcats (Duke Health)
Features Trinitia Cannon, MD

Media

WATCH: An Interview with DCI Oncologist Rani Bansal, MD (Spectrum)

Sovah Health Welcomes Duke Radiation Oncologist Collin Kent, MD (ABC 13 News)

Learning to live in the now (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Featuring Henry Friedman, MD


World’s best specialized hospitals 2023 - Oncology (Newsweek)

Top 10 obstetrics and gynecology programs, ranked by physicians (Becker’s Hospital Review)
 
Durham biotech eyes new facility, larger headcount after raising millions to advance fight against cancer (Triangle Business Journal)
Features Kris Wood, PhD, and
Eoin McDonnell, PhD

A candid conversation with Black men about prostate health (FOXY NC Radio)
Features Duke patient Jeff Dowd, Angelo Moore, PhD, RN
 
Doctors explore new ways to kill cancer in patients (WNCT CBS 9)
Features Nicholas DeVito, MD
 
 

Trades, Institutions, and Government

Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD, Receives 2023 Biomedical Engineering Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for "more globally accessible technology for
women's health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment
  plus Q & A (IEEE)
Features Nimmi Ramanuham, PhD

Hanks Receives Top Melanoma Research Foundation Award (Melanoma Research Foundation)
Features Brent Hanks, MD, PhD

Fungal Association with Tumors May Predict and Drive Worse Outcomes (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Features Anders Dohlman (PhD student)

Next-generation liquid biopsy detects nano-sized signs of breast cancer in early-stage patients (USC and Nature npj Breast Cancer)
Features Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH

FDA advisory panel votes against drugs for lung cancer, multiple myeloma subgroups (Healio)
Features Anthony Sung, MD

Much Worse Breast Cancer Survival When First Metastasis in Brain (Medscape)
Features Carey Anders, MD

WATCH: Insights from the P-II Study at the 2022 ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (Pharma Shots)
Features John Strickler, MD

Tucatinib-trastuzumab combo induces duralble tumour response in HER2+ mCRC (Mims Pharmacy News)
Features John Strickler, MD

GI Investigator Dr. John Strickler on the Ground Breaking MOUNTAINEER Trial (ACCRU Transformative Research)

‘A gut check’: Do tumor boards improve care? (Medscape)
Features Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, MHS

Survival improving in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer population (Renal and Urology News)
Features Daniel George, MD

Omidubicel Increases Availability of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (Targeted Oncology)
Features Chenyu Lin, MD

Can diet change the course of cancer? (Chemical & Engineering News)
Features Jason Locasale, PhD

Mesothelioma Study Yields Disappointing Conclusion about Adjuvant Radiation (Mesothelioma.Net and Annals of Surgery)
Features Vignesh Raman, MD

A universal flu vaccine might not look very universal (Drug Discovery News)
Features Nicholas Heaton, PhD

Survival improving in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer population (Renal and Urology News)
Features Daniel George, MD

Omidubicel Increases Availability of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (Targeted Oncology)
Features Chenyu Lin, MD

Can diet change the course of cancer? (Chemical & Engineering News)
Features Jason Locasale, PhD

Vaccine Holds Promise to Improve Outcomes for MBC Patients (Susan G. Komen)
Features Zachary Hartman, PhD

A universal flu vaccine might not look very universal (Drug Discovery News)
Features Nicholas Heaton, PhD

Papers

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors Cell Sept. 29, 2022 Anders B. Dohlman; Jared Klug; Marissa Mesko; Iris H. Gao; Steven M. Lipkin; Xiling Shen; Iliyan D. Iliev

Multianalyte liquid biopsy to aid the diagnostic workup of breast cancer  npj Breast Cancer Sept. 27, 2022 Sonia Maryam Setayesh, Olivia Hart, Amin Naghdloo, Nikki Higa, Jorge Nieva, Janice Lu, Shelley Hwang, Kathy Wilkinson, Michael Kidd, Amanda Anderson, Carmen Ruiz Velasco, Anand Kolatkar, Nicholas Matsumoto, Rafael Nevarez, James B. Hicks, Jeremy Mason, Stephanie N. Shishido & Peter Kuhn

Systemic Therapy Approaches for Breast Cancer Brain and Leptomeningeal Metastases Neuro-Oncology Sept. 22, 2022 Ajay Dhakal MD; Amanda E. D. Van Swearingen, PhD;
Ruth O’Regan MD & Carey K. Anders, MD

Palliative Care Use Among People Living With HIV and Cancer: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database (2004-2018) JCO Oncology Practice July 22, 2022 Jessica Y. Islam, PhD, MPH; Leticia Nogueira, PhD; Gita Suneja, MD; Anna Coghill, PhD, MPH; and Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD 

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