Tracy Smith has joined Ashish Deshmukh as a co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
Matthew J. Carpenter was named associate director of the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
TD Bank has committed $100,000 to support the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center’s SC AMEN program, a community outreach initiative that brings education, screenings, and health services assistance to Black men 40 to 69 years old in South Carolina.
Quitting smoking within six months after a cancer diagnosis adds an average of two years to a patient’s life, according to a study published inJAMA Oncology, With this information in hand, all cancer centers have an obligation to offer evidence-based smoking cessation to all patients, said Graham Warren, vice-chair for Research in the Department of... […]
Lynne Elmore joined MUSC Hollings Cancer Center as the director of research development.
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center has opened the Summer and Clyde Anderson Advanced Cancer Therapy Clinic to provide specialized care to patients participating in phase I clinical trials.
NCI has renewed MUSC Hollings Cancer Center’s five-year Cancer Center Support Grant, with an overall rating of “outstanding.”
Shikhar Mehrotra, professor of surgery and Cecilia and Vincent Peng Endowed Chair in melanoma and cutaneous oncology, will take on the role of co-leader of the Cancer Biology and Immunology Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, alongside Philip Howe, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Sophie Paczesny, professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology.
Jezabel Rodriguez Blanco, who has a dual appointment at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and the Darby Children’s Research Institute at MUSC, will receive $800,000 over four years from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer to continue her pursuit of the causes of medulloblastoma relapse.
William Hawkins, a pancreatic cancer surgeon and scientist, was named deputy director of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center. In the newly created role, he will focus on strengthening translational research, increasing clinical trials across South Carolina and assisting Craig Lockhart, chief of the Oncology Integrated Center of Clinical Excellence, with making clinical operations more efficient.
