GW Cancer Center

The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Catherine Bollard, MD, has been appointed as the associate center director for translational research and innovation.
Sharad Goyal was recently selected to be a member of the NRG Oncology Developmental Therapeutics Radiation Therapy Subcommittee where he will spend the next two years working with members of the committee and the National Institutes of Health to bring new drugs to clinical trials.
A team from the GW Cancer Center received a 2018 Education Research Grant Award from the Center for Faculty Excellence at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Research published in Cancer Cell by George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center researcher Alexandros Tzatsos, MD, PhD, found an important connection between the KDM6A gene and the most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.
Researchers from the GW Cancer Center will participate and present posters at the AACR Annual Meeting held April 14-18.
The GW Cancer Center recently welcomed 24 multidisciplinary health care teams from across the country to its inaugural TEAM (Together, Equitable, Accessible, Meaningful) Training program.
Rohan Fernandes, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received more than $700,000 from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to research treatment for neuroblastoma.
Looking at a winning submission for the first-ever SMHS Art of Science Contest, one might not know the bright purple and green colors represent olfactory bulb interneurons and astrocytes in the brain; but that’s the beauty of art: there’s more to it than meets the eye.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences will participate in the First International Scientific Research Summit of the GW-Spain Consortium in Madrid on Dec. 1–2.
Norman Lee, PhD, and Catherine Bollard, MD, were recognized for their research in cancer at the 2017 Faculty Research Awards.