Registration for 21st Annual TRCCC Meeting opens
The WVU Cancer Institute is the organizing center for the 2018 annual meeting of the Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium (TRCCC) on February 14-16 in Seven Springs, PA. Cancer Institute Director Rich Goldberg, MD; HSC Senior Associate Vice President for Research & Graduate Education and Cancer Institute Deputy Director Laura Gibson, PhD; and Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Cancer Institute researcher David Klinke, PhD, are the chairs of the event, which brings together leaders in immunotherapy and other biologic therapies. Patrick Ma, MD, co-leader of the Cancer Institute’s Allen Lung Cancer Program, will present a talk titled Immunotherapies in lung cancer and Dr. Goldberg will present a talk on the extraordinary results of a clinical trial that saved the life of one of his patients at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Keynote presentations will be made by two outstanding researchers:
Dr. Robert L. Ferris, director of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Hillman Professor of Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Pamela Ohashi, PhD, FRSC, professor in the department of immunology and medical biophysics at the University of Toronto. She also is director of the Immune Therapy Program at Ontario Cancer Institute.
WVU Hospitals, Garrett Regional Medical Center enter into management agreement
Garrett Regional Medical Center (GRMC) has entered into a management agreement with WVU Hospitals effective January 1, 2018.
Through the current clinical affiliation, which went into effect in 2015, WVU Medicine-University Health Associates provides services in oncology, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, nephrology, neurology (telestroke), and laboratory on site at GRMC, and WVU Hospitals provides management services at GRMC’s Cancer Care and Infusion Services Center. As part of the new agreement, WVU Hospitals will manage and provide additional services and expertise at the Oakland, Maryland, based facility.
Health Sciences Innovation Center reception to highlight incubator companies
The Health Sciences Innovation Center will host a year-end reception highlighting its incubator companies and invites everyone to join in celebrating its accomplishments Dec.14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute. Representatives from the incubator companies will be on hand to demonstrate their technology and share their stories. Lori Hazlehurst, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and co-leader of the WVU Cancer Institute Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, is the president and co-founder of a startup company called Modulation Therapeutics, and is one of the incubator companies to be highlighted at the reception.
Shared Research Facilities hosts open house
Join the staff of Shared Research Facilities for holiday treats and tours of SRF's labs. Share with us your research joys of the last year. Tell us about your future hopes for major research instrumentation at WVU. Stop by our display near G70 ESB Dec. 11, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to share how we all can advance WVU research in the coming year. Contact Trina Wafle, or Harley Hart, for more information.
WVCTSI offering K Grant Writing Groups (K-Clubs)
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) is offering the K-Club program to provide guidance and advice to early-stage investigators planning to apply for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mentored Career Development Award – a K series grant. The K-Club program is structured as a facilitated group writing process (approximately 3 investigators to 1 faculty facilitator) which features a series of 2 hour “works-in-progress” sessions over a 12–14 week period prior to an upcoming NIH K-cycle submission. Each session focuses on a different part of the grant with emphasis on strategies to improve communication of ideas. Prior to each session, participants send their latest version of the relevant sections to all K-Club members and the faculty facilitator. All participants will arrive to the next session having read the others’ grant sections to provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to their colleagues.
Annual Bob Huggins Fish Fry Fundraiser - Tickets On Sale Now
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