Breast cancer surgeon Tari A. King was appointed as chief surgical officer for the cancer service line at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Emory Healthcare. Joining Emory on July 14, she will also be the chief of the newly formed Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of Winship’s Glenn Family Breast Center.
Treatment with an indefinite course of osimertinib dramatically improves progression-free survival for patients with stage 3 non-small cell cancer, according to the results of the LAURA trial. The median PFS was 39.1 months in the osimertinib group, compared to 5.6 months with the placebo group.
As architects, we welcomed the challenge set forth by Emory Healthcare and the Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center to build a new cancer care center for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Walter J. Curran Jr., former executive director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, was named chief of Piedmont Oncology Institute (Piedmont Oncology), effective Jan. 9.
A new center at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University will focus research efforts on eliminating cancer disparities in Georgia and nationwide.Â
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received renewal of the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from NCI.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Emory University will share a five-year, $3.3 million NIH grant to study spectroscopic MRI and make it easier to use.Â
The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a five-year $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Data Science Strategy at NIH to investigate whether problem-based learning will more effectively help to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce and reduce health disparities.Â
Jerome Carl Landry, MD, MBA, a radiation oncologist at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine, and former medical director of Grady Memorial Hospital, died recently.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University was awarded a P01 program project grant from NCI to support research aimed at improving the effectiveness of immunotherapy for lung cancer in patients with a mutation of the LKB1 gene, a group for whom present immunotherapy options do not provide robust benefit.Â
