Cancer Center Annual Retreat – 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Erickson Alumni Center
Dedication (2:30-3 p.m.) and Reception (3-4 p.m.) for WVU Cancer Institute –

Meeting Agenda

Registration for Annual Meeting
Registration for the Poster session

Please join us for a dedication ceremony to celebrate our recent expansion and renovations Thursday, October 18 at 2:30 pm (Look for the tent in the grass in front of Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center)

After the dedication, you are invited to the Hardesty Lecture:
“The Power of Research, The Promise of Hope,” at 4 pm in Okey Patteson Auditorium with Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD
Director, National Cancer Institute

Institute Recruiting Internal Leadership Candidate

The WVU Cancer Institute is recruiting an internal candidate who is currently a WVU faculty member to serve as the Associate Director for Laboratory-Based Research and join the institute’s leadership team. The job description and qualifications are available online

Potential candidates will be evaluated by the leadership team and selected candidates will be interviewed. We hope to complete this process within the next 4-8 weeks.

The WVU Cancer Institute welcomes membership applications from all faculty who have cancer-related research interests

The missions of the WVU Cancer Institute (WVUCI) are to provide excellent care to cancer patients and their families while strengthening our research, education, and service programs to address the cancer health disparities unique to the state of West Virginia and Appalachia.

There are currently 74 approved membership applications

We would like to thank each and every team captain and team member who took an active part in this year’s event, behind the scenes, pre and post-fundraising, planning, and those on the front line at the event, making this another success!  We are highlighting the top 5 teams for 2018.

TOP 5 TEAMS

Congratulations to Maximum Dosage of Hope (Specialty Pharmacy) for another outstanding  year!  $5,030.00 Team Captains Roger Williams and Lisa Keller

Congratulations to Mad Scientists (Research) for your contribution of $2,188.00  Team Captain Jessica Allen and Kristina Marinak

Congratulations to Team Hope ( In-Patient Oncology) for your contribution of $2,109.00  Team Captain Candy Rush and Brooke Gobel

Congratulations to MBRCC Cancer Crushers (Out-patient Oncology) for your contribution of 1,948.50  Team Captains Jessica Grimm and Kylie Knisell

Congratulations to SlythERin for a Cure (Emergency Room) for your contribution of $1,444.13  Team Captain Curtis Ash

The WVU Cancer Institute is participating in the implementation of a new drug therapy for the treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), a type of tumor that can form in the pancreas or in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, and appendix. These life-threatening tumors can spread to other organs, such as the liver.

Flu Shots for WVU Medicine and WVU Employees coming in October

WVUMEDICINE Employees
WVU Employees

Samuels joins WVU Cancer Institute Development Team

Tiffany Samuels will become the Major Gifts Director for the Cancer Institute effective September 10. Tiffany served successfully as Director of Development for The Reed College of Media since 2015. She now looks forward to focusing her efforts on the Cancer Institute.  “As a West Virginia native and resident; I can think of no greater impact that I can have on my state that to represent the health care needs of my neighbors.” Please join me in thanking Tiffany for all of her great work at Reed and congratulate her as she embarks on her next chapter at WVU.  Tiffany may be reached at tiffany.samuels@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-293-8604.

Student in Guo Lab Awarded Prestigious Travel Award

Salvi Singh an MS student in computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at WVU who works in the Laboratory of Dr. Lan Guo, as a Research Assistant was awarded the NSF Travel Award for her presentation at the 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2018). The title of her presentation was:  Genet-CNV: Boolean Implication Networks for Modelling Genome-Wide Co-occurrence of DNA Copy Number Variations: Ms. Singh, working with her mentor Lan Guo, PhD uses an algorithm to detect DNA copy number variation networks that may be important for lung cancers. Her current research focuses on identifying genes that may be drivers in lung cancer initiation and metastasis.