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.

CDC to offer continuing education course on vaccine immunization in Morgantown

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering a continuing education course titled CDC Pink Book Training: Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases on April 10-11, 2018, at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place in Morgantown, West Virginia. 

Steven Frisch, PhD, presents research at American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting

Steven Frisch, PhD, professor in the WVU Department of Biochemistry and a member of the WVU Cancer Institute Mechanisms of Metastasis & Therapeutic Response Program, presented a talk about his immunotherapy research at the American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Dec. 2, 2017 in Philadelphia.  His talk entitled EMT and tumor recurrence mechanisms was part of a special workshop on immunotherapy and immuno-oncology that was sponsored by the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer.

Post-transplant patients receive free massages

Members of the post transplant support group at the WVU Cancer Institute Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center were offered free massages at the Cancer Institute this past Friday.  It was a pre-holiday treat, courtesy of Kim Kreider, massage therapist in the WVU Department of Rehab Services and the Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program.  Rebecca Phillips of Fairmont was delighted to benefit from Kreider’s expertise.  Phillips credited her transplant success to a clinical trial she had at the Cancer Institute.  “It was a lifesaver that paved the way for me to have the transplant,” Phillips said.  “My doctor, Kelly Ross and all the doctors at the Cancer Institute are great; I brag on them all the time.”

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Cancer Institute receives gift bags for patients


Amy Broadwater of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania is hoping to brighten the spirits of patients at the WVU Cancer Institute Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center this holiday season.