Cancer Institute welcomes 2018 summer undergraduate research fellows
Five undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the Summer Research Fellowship Program this year at the WVU Cancer Institute. Terezia Galikova, Robert Hickey, Nolan Holley and Nico Muttillo of WVU and Yongija “James” Deng of Vanderbilt University were welcomed this past week during an orientation where they exchanged introductions with the faculty they will be working closely with in Cancer Institute laboratories.
Cancer Institute Clinical Team And Transplant Patients Celebrate Life At 25th Annual Patient Reunion
The WVU Cancer Institute Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program has reached a significant milestone – 25 years of providing lifesaving transplants to West Virginians with blood and marrow diseases. The first transplant was performed in October 1992 and since then more than 1,350 patients have received the procedure and hundreds of non-transplant patients have received the latest treatment close to home. WVU Cancer Institute physicians and clinical support staff marked the program’s special anniversary by hosting a celebration of life for the patients they serve.
Local fundraiser to benefit cancer patients at WVU Cancer Institute
Several staff members in the WVU Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) are conducting a fundraiser to help patients at the Institute’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.
A fundraiser involving local organizations on High Street, presented by Nexgen Industrial Services, will be held in downtown Morgantown on Saturday, June 23, to benefit the Comfort Fund at the Cancer Institute.
WVU Medicine has new service for telephone interpreting
WVU Medicine has contracted Stratus Video as its new service for telephone interpreting.
Richard Funnell featured in The Cancer Letter
The May 18, 2018 issue of The Cancer Letter includes a feature on Richard Funnell, who was recently recruited as WVU Cancer Institute vice president of cancer services.
Dose physician newsletter available electronically
The latest issue of the WVU Medicine physician newsletter includes two Cancer Institute-related articles – one on self-referral for lung cancer screening and another on the recruitment of Dr. Sanaz Soltani to the WVU Cancer Institute at Berkeley Medical Center.
Photo Exhibit Documenting “Unseen” Parts Of Community Opens May 31
“Unseen Morgantown,” a photovoice project featuring an exhibit of photographs by clients of Milan Puskar Health Right’s free clinic opens in the Monongalia Arts Center with a reception on Thursday, May 31, 6-8 p.m., and will run through Saturday, June 2, 2018. For the past nine weeks, Health Right clients have been learning the art of photography and using their cameras to document their lives and surroundings, shedding light on the people, places, and dynamics that often go unseen in the Morgantown community. The project was produced by WVU’s Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) and Milan Puskar Health Right.
Our Hematology Oncology clinical and support staff are now located on the 3rd floor of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center. They made the move from first floor this past Monday as part of the Cancer Institute’s expansion project. Renovation of the 2nd floor into clinic space is slated to be open for patients on June 4.
The WVU Cancer Institute Employee Recognition Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for its annual Employee Recognition Awards Program. If you would like to nominate and recognize excellence amongst our faculty, members, staff, employees and Cancer Service Line staff members who devote their professional lives to cancer prevention, care or research in any and all capacities, please use this easy online nomination form. It has been revised to make it easier to nominate and recognize excellence in our colleagues.
This year a new Team award has been created to recognize a team of 3 or more individuals who demonstrate our values of collaboration, innovation, accountability and service to others.
Nomination applications must be submitted by July 15, 2018. The review committee will be comprised of last year’s awardees. Award recipients will be notified in late early summer, 2018. The celebration honoring the recipients will be held during a Tea Time in the Cancer Institute.
Awards will be given in the following categories of excellence in any of our guiding principles:
Special Funding Notice: WVU Cancer Institute Pilot Project Grants
The WVU Cancer Institute, with funds from its American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant, will provide pilot funds to support cancer research by junior faculty with no current national grant support of their own. Applicants may include full time-faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, or other WVU Schools and Colleges. Applications are due June 1, 2018 (5:00pm).
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