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| Upcoming Events weeks of June 17 - June 23 |
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Jun 18 |
WVU Health Sciences Blood Drive - 12-5 p.m.
Summer Full of Life Blood Drive in Don Hoylman Family Atrium at Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center
ITX Workshop - 9 a.m.
Monoclonal antibody engineering
Meenal Elliott
All graduate students welcome to attend.
This meeting is virtual, please use this Zoom link. |
Jun 23 |
Let's Talk: Assistive Technology for Communication -
3 p.m.
Learn about different tools that can be utilized for communication.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
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WVU Cancer Institute Welcomes Summer Undergraduate Research Interns
(Photo caption): Aryon Marshall, Caitlin Cowell, Ashley, Ebyrianne Falatovich, Lev Ivanov, Morgan Glass, Adam Bobak
Seven undergraduate students have come to WVU Cancer Institute’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center Research Laboratories to complete cancer research internships. The highly competitive Summer Research Internship Program at the Cancer Institute provides funding and research opportunities for undergraduate students who want to pursue careers in cancer research and medicine. Students receive a stipend and are paired with a WVU Cancer Institute scientist for a 10-week research project. This summer, our interns are hosted in labs of Drs. Elena Pugacheva, Steven Frisch, Lori Hazlehurst, Michael Hu, Lan Guo, Sonikpreet Aulakh, and Paul Lockman, respectively.
Please welcome these students to campus:
Ashley Eby, Morgan Glass and Aryon Marshall are all students at West Virginia University, Adam Bobak and Brianne Falatovich are students at Seton Hill University, Lev Ivanov studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and Caitlin Cowell comes from Harvard College.
2021 WVU Medicine Farmers Market is Returning June 30
The Wellness Center is excited to announce the return of the annual Farmers Market! Now in its 12th season, the WVU Medicine Farmers Market is scheduled to begin Wednesday, June 30. More information will be provided soon as we approach the start date.
Please email farmersmarket@hsc.wvu.edu if you have questions.
If you have story ideas, photos or other announcements you would like to see in weekly WVU Cancer eNews please send requests to Lori Acciavatti at wvucancer@hsc.wvu.edu. |
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* Some of these articles may require a subscription to the newspaper or service WVU Cancer Institute Schiffler Cancer Center at Wheeling Hospital Earns Three-Year National Accreditation
The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), has granted three-year accreditation to the cancer program at WVU Cancer Institute Schiffler Cancer Center at Wheeling Hospital. - Intelligencer/News-Register Online |
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Association of Guideline-Concordant Initial Systemic Treatment With Clinical and Economic Outcomes Among Older Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer in the United States.
Vyas A, Mantaian T, Kamat S, Kurian S and Kogut S.
J Geriatr Oncol. 2021.
Treatment of WHO Grade 2 Meningiomas With Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Identification of an Optimal Group for SRS Using RPA.
Kowalchuk RO, Shepard MJ, Sheehan K, Sheehan D, Faramand A, Niranjan A, Kano H, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Liscak R, Guseynova K, Grills IS, Parzen JS, Cifarelli CP, Rehman AA, Atik A, Bakhsheshian J, Zada G, Chang E, Giannotta S, Speckter H, Wu H-m, Kondziolka D, Mathieu D, Lee C-c, Warnick RE, Lunsford LD, Trifiletti DM and Sheehan JP.
International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 2021;110(3):804-814.
Copy Number Alterations Identify a Smoking-Associated Expression Signature Predictive of Poor Outcome in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Papenberg BW, Ingles J, Gao S, Feng J, Allen JL, Markwell SM, Interval ET, Montague PA, Wen S and Weed SA.
Cancer Genet. 2021;256-257:136-148.
Utilization of Radiation Therapy in Multiple Myeloma: Trends and Changes in Practice.
Ailawadhi S, Frank R, Ailawadhi M, Kanji Z, Jani P, Fiala M, Abdulazeez M, Ahmed S, Aggarwal CS, Aulakh S, Hodge D, Roy V, Alegria VR, Paulus A, Chanan-Khan A and Sher T.
Ann Hematol. 2021;100(3):735-741. |
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NIH Funding or Other Announcements
American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Grant
The American Cancer Society offers a limited number of grants to investigators who have had the rank of full professor for 15 years or less and made seminal contributions in the area of cancer control that have changed the direction of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy, or epidemiologic cancer research.
It is expected that these investigators will continue to provide leadership in their research area. Up to 2 awards are made annually for a 5-year term that can be renewed once. The award of up to $80,000 per year (direct costs only) may be used for salary or research project support.
Letter of Interest Deadline: August 1
Application Deadline: October 1
WVU Teaching and Learning Commons Offers Summer EDGE Teaching Institute
The Educators Designing Great Experiences Teaching Institute will run from June 21 to July 2 and will guide participants through the iterative process of creating and improving upon quality course design. Highlights include a focus on curating content, engaging students and delivering hands-on learning experiences for both in-person and virtual teaching modes. |
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See more on the WVU Cancer Institute Calendar |
Jun 24 |
PDF Accessibility Training - 1-2 p.m.
For more information, email Doug Cumpston.
Zotero Workshop - 2-3:15 p.m.
Zotero, is a free, online citation manager that can help you collect, organize, format and share citations.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP |
Jun 30 |
Cancer Cell Biology Series - 12 PM
"Characterizing the Linc-SPRY3 family in Radiation Resistance"
Emily Westemeier Proposal Defense
If you plan to attend, please RSVP
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Aug 9-12 |
Van Liere Research Conference
More details will be coming soon with abstract submissions open in early summer. |
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