GW Cancer Center

Robert Siegel, MD '77, was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor given to alumni by the university and the GW Alumni Association.

The GW Cancer Center unveiled a new state-of-the-art mobile mammography van, known as the GW Mammovan, to provide breast cancer screening to women in the Washington, D.C. region.

Mitchell R. Smith, MD, PhD, associate center director for clinical investigations at GW Cancer Center and professor of medicine, was interviewed for a segment on Al Jazeera reporting on a new treatment approved for patients with childhood leukemia that uses the patient's own genetically modified…

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at GW Cancer Center, accepted a check from the Avon Foundation at the annual Avon Walk in Washington, D.C. The money will fund a patient navigator who will provide resources to help breast cancer…

A team of researchers at GW Cancer Center found that T-cells lacking in the HDAC11 enzyme performed better in attacking cancer tumor cells. This research highlights the importance of treating HDAC11 as an immunotherapeutic target.

Norman Lee, PhD, professor of pharmacology and physiology, published research in Nature Communications finding that a form of genetic variation, called differential RNA splicing, may have a role in tumor aggressiveness and drug resistance in African American men with prostate cancer. 

The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce the opening of the Supportive Oncodermatology Clinic. This clinic is the only one of its kind in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of only a handful of such clinics in the country.

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, director of the GW Cancer Center, published research looking at the development of resistance to Ibrutinib, a drug used to treat patients suffering with mantle cell lymphoma. 

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, co-authored an article for Conquer about developing a plan for patients in the posttreatment phase of survivorship.

Jennifer Bires, LICSW, OSW-C, program coordinator of patient support services at the GW Cancer Center, was named the 2017 AOSW Oncology Social Worker of the Year.