Rally builds excitement for Relay
WVU Cancer Institute and WVU Medicine faculty, staff and students are gearing up for the 2018 American Cancer Society Monongalia County Relay For Life in June. During a Relay rally this past Friday in the Cancer Center Atrium, Cancer Institute Director Rich Goldberg, MD, told rally participants that the Cancer Institute has had a great relationship with the American Cancer Society over the years.
Free CE Course for Oral Health Providers
This free CE course on Friday, March 23 at the Robert H. Mollohan Research Center at the I-79 Technology Park in Fairmont will focus on HPV infection, precancers, cancer, vaccination and early detection in the morning, and will cover the oral effects of drugs and other substances in the afternoon. Sponsors include the West Virginia Immunization Network, American Cancer Society, West Virginia Oral Health Program and the Mountains of Hope Cancer Coalition.
For more information, contact: Julie Jackson by email or at 304-356-4367
Celebrate Dr. Alan Ducatman's retirement
After 25 years with WVU, Dr. Alan Ducatman is retiring. The Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences at the WVU School of Public Health is hosting a celebration from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 20 in the Pylons Area, Health Sciences Center, North. Dr. Ducatman is a WVU Cancer Institute member.
View the latest issue of Under the Dome
This edition of Under the Dome covers the final days of the 2018 WV Legislative session and details action on bills passed by the Legislature and signed or vetoed by the Governor.
WVCTSI co-hosting event on program officer relationships
WVCTSI and the WVU Office of Research and Graduate Education are cohosting a workshop to highlighting building effective relationships with program officers. In “Building Relationships with Program Officers,” a panel of research leaders from Marshall University and WVU will lead discussions on a variety of topics including the conducting of site visits and cultivating relationships with program officers over time. This workshop will also include a breakout session that will focus on refining a 3-minute pitch to your program officer. Attendees should prepare a pitch in advance to share with the panel of experts.
This event will take place Tuesday, April 3 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in room G119 of the WVU Health Sciences Center North. For additional information, contact Renice Gray at Renice.Gray@hsc.wvu.edu or Mallory Weaver at mallory.weaver@hsc.wvu.edu.
Dr. Martinez presents research at Gottingen University-Max Planck Institutes in Germany, collaborations with Cancer Institute to follow
WVU Cancer Institute’s Dr. Ivan Martinez and his lab will engage in collaborative research with their colleagues at The German Primate Center, part of the Gottingen University-Max Planck Institutes in Germany, later this year.
Dr. Martinez’s research on the role of RNAs in cancer development piqued the interest of Dr. Jens Gruber, professor at The Primate Center and his graduate student Nicolas Lemus, and they invited Martinez to their country recently to talk about his work at the Cancer Institute. They were especially interested in Martinez’s project related to the discovery of an alternative pathway of microRNA biogenesis. Part of this project was recently published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS, 2017).
Voting for Bravo’s ‘Best of the Best’ begins
The voting is open to all WVU Medicine employees. The last day to vote is Monday, March 19.
Science advocate, author to speak at WVU
Paul A. Offit, M.D., has built an international reputation defending science and medicine against attack. But he doesn’t think scientists never make mistakes. He’s planning to visit West Virginia University March 23 to talk about what we can learn from the laboratory mishaps of the past.
School board donation to benefit cancer research
The Monongalia County Board of Education has made a donation to the WVU Cancer Institute to support clinical research. Board members Dr. Clarence Harvey, Jr., Mike Kelly, Nancy Walker, Dr. Barbara Parsons, and Ron Lytle, along with superintendent Dr. Frank Devono and former board member Joe Statler, recently directed their gift to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund in memory of their friend and colleague Stephen Cook who passed away early this month.
Pictured (L-R): Members of Stephen Cook's family Mike Radabaugh, Jaxon Radabaugh, Stephanie Radabaugh, Matt Cook, and Virginia Abbott, and Scarlett Schneider, PHD, senior director of development at the WVU Cancer Institute
Graduate students and intellectual property is Lunch and Learn topic this month
The Health Sciences Innovation Center, along with the Women’s Business Center, will sponsor a Lunch and Learn March 20 starting at noon at the Launch Lab Room 413, Evansdale Crossing. This month’s topic: Graduate Students and Intellectual Property.
WVU Medicine Otolaryngology, WVU School of Dentistry to offer free oral cancer screenings
WVU Medicine Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, with assistance from the WVU School of Dentistry, will provide free oral cancer screenings from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 7, at the Otolaryngology Clinic at the Physician Office Center (POC) in Morgantown.
WVU’s Interprofessional Education Week theme is “Why”
The Office of Interprofessional Education has organized an exceptional group of speakers who will take on the theme of wellness, health and you during the 2018 Interprofessional Education week. All WVU faculty, staff and students are invited to attend this series of events, poster presentations and fun activities scheduled for March 19 - 23 at the Health Sciences Center.
Cancer Institute Tea Time
Please join us Friday, April 6, 3-4 p.m., for introductions, updates and networking! Refreshments will be provided. First floor Cancer Institute atrium |
