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GW Cancer Center Appoints Michael K. Benedict to Serve as Associate Center Director for Administration and Finance
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Michael K. Benedict, PharmD, has been appointed as the associate center director for administration and finance. 
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, M.D., Elected to Serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, M.D., director of the GW Cancer Center, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). Sotomayor will start a three-year term on October 23 during the AACI Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Zika Virus: A Community and Public Health Perspective
Tiana Garrett, Ph.D., M.P.H., discussed Zika virus updates from an epidemiological perspective in a Sept. 12 lecture.
Dr. John Larsen, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Awarded the 2016 Hellman Midwifery Partnership Award
John Larsen, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and former chair of the department, received the 2016 Hellman Midwifery Partnership Award. 
One GW: Aligning Under One Umbrella
The line for the One GW launch, held Sept. 15, stretched far beyond the gates of the Eye Street Mall. Nearly 4,000 employees - faculty, staff, residents, and students from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), GW Hospital, and the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) - passed through…
GW Physician Publishes Study on Experience Caring for an Aging Parent
Robert Kaiser, M.D., associate professor of medicine, published a paper in The Gerontologist  on the challenges faced by caregivers of aging parents, drawing upon his own experiences. 
Dr. Alejandro Villagra Receives $500K Grant From Melanoma Research Foundation
A $500,000 grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation has been awarded to a team of researchers, led by Alejandro Villagra, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to further…
Asthma Leaves Its Mark in a Variety of Ways for Children Who Live in Inner Cities
Stephen Teach, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published multiple studies in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology finding five distinct asthma phenotypes. 
New Study Finds ‘Amplifier’ Helps Make Connections in the Fetal Brain
Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology and member of the Institute for Neuroscience, and Yasunobu Murata, Ph.D., researcher scientist in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, authored a study published in eLife finding that fetal brains use a special…
GW Cancer Center Taps Dr. Jianqing Lin and Dr. Harold Frazier to Lead the Genitourinary Oncology Multidisciplinary Program
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Jianqing Lin, M.D., associate professor of medicine and physician in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Harold Frazier, II, M.D., FACS, professor of urology, have been tapped to co-lead GW Cancer Center's newly established Genitourinary…