John DiPersio, MD, PhD, Professor Medicine in the Division of Oncology will give the 2024 E Donnall Thomas lecture at the ASTCT/CIBMTR Tandem Meetings in San Antonio. The E. Donnall Thomas Lecture recognizes an eminent physician or scientist, either a clinician or an investigator, who has contributed meritoriously to the advancement of knowledge in blood […]
Melissa Reimers, Nikolaos Trikalinos, Kian-Huat Lim, Milan Chheda and Christopher Maher from the Division of Oncology received Siteman Investment Program funding for their research. Dr. Reimers, Associate Professor of Medicine, will assess the safety and tolerability of dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor used to treat diabetes and heart failure, in patients with high-risk […]
Cynthia Ma , lead author and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Oncology along with her colleagues Kiran Vij, Jeremy Hoog, Mark Watson and Erika Crouch in the Department of Pathology investigated the role of neoadjuvant anastrazole, fulvestrant or the combination in a multi-institutional trial. The trial did not find a benefit of fulvestrant […]
Dr. Fehniger, along with Alice Zhou (Division of Oncology), George Ansstas (Division of Oncology), and Ryan Fields (Department of Medicine) have received a $1.5 million grant to support a phase 1 trial of immunotherapy for melanoma. The study will treat patients with melanoma with natural killer cell-based therapy developed at Washington University for treatment of […]
“Efforts to understand the molecular underpinnings of cancer took a giant leap forward fifteen years ago, when Ley et al. reported the first complete genome of a cancer — specifically, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Genomic data sets of this kind generated in the intervening years have revolutionized our knowledge about tumour biology.”
This collaborative study, published in Nature on Nov 1, 2023 involved researchers from the Divisions of Oncology, Department of Surgery, McDonnell Genome Institute, Siteman Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Neurologic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Department of Genetics at Washington University. Scientists discovered specific epigenetic changes that […]
Rigoberto De Jesus Pizarro and Joshua Siner, both third year Hematology-Oncology Fellows at Washington University School of Medicine are recipients of the 2023 Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award. The awards recognize and support fellows who exemplify a compassionate spirit combined with outstanding knowledge and skill.Dr. Siner has clinical and research interests in classical hematology with […]
A $10.9 Million SPORE Grant for Pancreas Cancer expands on research funded by a prior pancreas cancer SPORE grant and various studies undertaken at Washington University. It targets novel therapeutic targets for the management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), recognized as the most lethal variant of pancreatic cancer. Currently, the five-year survival rate for PDAC […]
Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Dr. Priyanka Verma, PhD, Assistant Professor of Oncology receive grants to advance precision medicine and help to eliminate disparities in breast cancer outcomes
Dr. Bolton is one of the first recipients of “A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research” from the V Foundation for Cancer Research