| Announcements Faculty Searches LaunchedI am pleased to announce that we have launched two new faculty search committees, one for senior faculty members of the Cancer Biology Institute on the West Campus led by Yossi Schlessinger, and a second for a leader of the Phase I Developmental Therapeutics Program led by Roy Herbst. Both of these searches are integral to our translational research efforts and goals and finding the appropriate candidate is essential to our success. Please contact Yossi and Roy directly if you have any suggestions for either search.
Global Health & the Arts 2011I am pleased to co-chair this year's Global Health & the Arts program at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. Chaired by David Scheer, the event will be held on Friday, April 11, 2011 and is titled Understanding and Tackling Cancer in the 21st Century. The event includes a symposium led by a distinguished group of thought leaders and a performance of Agnes Under the Big Top, a new play by Aditi Brennan Kapil, to explore issues and developments in the world of cancer research, treatment, and the social impact of the disease.
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Updates from Smilow Town Hall Thank you to those who attended the Town Hall on Wednesday. We value your input and hope to continue to receive your feedback on Smilow operations and patient care. If you have not done so already, please complete the online survey. Our patient volume is steadily growing and we are on track to see 60,000 outpatient visits in 2011. Inpatient volume is also increasing, with 1,950 patients on the inpatient floors in the first quarter. In addition, we have cared for 11,750 patients during chemotherapy treatment visits and 7,750 patients in outpatient radiation oncology in the first quarter. Our goal is to roughly double the volume in Smilow Cancer Hospital over the next five years. Over the last year, the leadership of Smilow has established an Oncology Patient Safety and Quality Council and a Procedures and Operations Committee. In addition, both outpatient and inpatient staffing have been enhanced. The next year will see an increased focus on quality priorities and performance metrics. Otolaryngology Clinic Opened Benjamin Judson, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology in the Head and Neck Cancer Program, began seeing patients at Smilow Cancer Hospital this week. Dr. Judson's clinic is in the multispecialty clinic on the 4th floor. Closer to Free Bike Ride Save the date for the first annual Closer to Free bike ride to raise money for Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven on September 10, 2011. Learn More >>
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Notables Roy Herbst, MD and Benjamin Toll, PhD participated in a Congressional Briefing on tobacco control, the negative health consequences of smoking, and smoking cessation on March 1st, along with the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Herbst is chair of the American Association for Cancer Research's Task Force on Tobacco and Cancer. Tish Knobf, PhD published an article in Coping with Cancer Magazine titled, "Recovery, Reappraisal, and Renewal After Cancer Treatment." Read More >> The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named David Spiegel, PhD as a 2011 Sloan Research Fellow. The two-year fellowships encourage fundamental research by early-career scientists of outstanding promise in their fields. Dr. Spiegel is a member of the Yale Cancer Center Developmental Therapeutics Research Program. Ann Caldwell, RN recently joined the CTO as a Clinical Research Nurse for the melanoma program. Ann joins us from St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. She has over 15 years of oncology nursing experience and is a very strong addition to the program. Kelly Ann Lesko, RN joined the CTO as a Clinical Research Nurse for the hematology program. Kelly has over 10 years of oncology nursing experience. She joins us from St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven. Xiaomei (Grace) Sun joined the CTO as a Data Manager this week. Grace will support the lung cancer program, which has become the leading accrual team in the first 6 weeks of 2011. |
Newly Opened Clinical Trials
HIC 1009007411 Principal Investigator: Thomas Rutherford, PhD, MD A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind Trial of Weekly Paclitaxel Plus AMG 386 or Placebo in Women With Recurrent Partially Platinum Sensitive or Resistant Epithelial Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal or Fallopian Tube Cancers HIC 1011007624 Principal Investigator: Mario Sznol, MD An Open-Label, Dose-Escalation, Phase I/II Study to Investigate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Clinical Activity of the BRAF Inhibitor GSK2118436 in Combination with the MEK Inhibitor GSK1120212 in Subjects with BRAF Mutant Metastatic Melanoma HIC 1012007736 Principal Investigator: Gary Kupfer, MD Erwinase Master Treatment Protocol
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Funding Opportunities Breast Cancer Alliance Exceptional Project Grants 2012- For physician scientists and research scientists whose primary focus is breast cancer.
- Candidates are eligible at any stage of their careers.
- The proposed research must be directly related to the field of breast cancer.
- Areas of relevant research may include, but are not limited to: etiology, immunology, genetics, therapies, prevention, and clinical studies.
Internal Deadline: Friday, March 18, 2011 Learn More >> Brozman Foundation FellowshipThe Brozman Foundation will provide a Yale faculty member with funding to support/recruit a post-doctoral fellow to conduct research in ovarian cancer early detection and/or ovarian cancer prevention under the guidance of the Yale faculty member. This is a wonderful opportunity for faculty conducting research in ovarian cancer detection and/or prevention to further their work while training the next generation of researchers. Please contact Susan MayneApplication Deadline:March 21, 2011 The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development ProgramA program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program is now accepting applications for four-year postdoctoral research awards. These awards are available to physicians from historically disadvantaged backgrounds (ethnic, financial or educational) who are committed to pursuing careers in academic medicine, as well as to serving as role models for students and faculty of similar backgrounds.
During the 2011 grant cycle, the program will offer up to eight four-year research awards in biomedical research, clinical investigation, and health services research and epidemiology. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each and a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities.
Application Deadline: March 16, 2011
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Recent Publications
PALB2 mutations in familial breast and pancreatic cancer.
Hofstatter EW, Domchek SM, Miron A, Garber J, Wang M, Componeschi K, Boghossian L, Miron PL, Nathanson KL, Tung N.
Fam Cancer. 2011 Mar 2.
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The KRAS-Variant Genetic Test As a Marker of Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer.
Keane FK, Ratner ES.
Rev Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Summer;3(3):118-21.
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: prognostic factors and impact on treatment.
Parker TL, Strout MP.
Discov Med. 2011 Feb;11(57):115-23.
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The E3 ubiquitin ligase RAD18 regulates ubiquitylation and chromatin loading of FANCD2 and FANCI.
Williams SA, Longerich S, Sung P, Vaziri C, Kupfer GM.
Blood. 2011 Feb 25.
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Cancer microRNAs: From subtype profiling to predictors of response to therapy.
Chan E, Prado DE, Weidhaas JB.
Trends Mol Med. 2011 Feb 24.
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The epidemiology of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
Lawrence B, Gustafsson BI, Chan A, Svejda B, Kidd M, Modlin IM.
Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2011 Mar;40(1):1-18.
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The incidental renal mass.
Israel GM, Silverman SG.
Radiol Clin North Am. 2011 Mar;49(2):369-83.
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DNA polymerase beta is critical for genomic stability of sperm cells.
Kidane D, Dalal S, Keh A, Liu Y, Zelterman D, Sweasy JB.
DNA Repair (Amst). 2011 Feb 16.
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Events March 4; 10:00 AM Hematology Symposium Honoring Dr. Bernard Forget 55 Park Street A Panel of Distinguished Lecturers Learn More >>(PDF) March 6; 6:00 PM Yale Cancer Center Answers WNPR Support Services for Cancer Patients Bonnie Indeck, LCSW Learn More >> March 8; 12:00 PM Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds 55 Park Street Cancer Survivorship: Past, Present, and Future Tara Sanft, MD Psychology and Oncology: Shared Pathophysiological Targets of Interest? Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD Learn More >> March 9; 11:00 AM Radiobiology and Radiotherapy Seminar WWW 201 Regulation of Homologous Recombination Via the Rad51-Rad54 Axis Valeria Busygina, PhD Learn More >>
March 10; 12:00 PM Schwartz Center Rounds 55 Park Street There Must be Another Treatment to Give: When a Family Wants More Than What We Have to Offer Moderated by Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD Learn More >>
March 11; 1:00 PM Molecular Virology Seminar SHM I-116 Modulation of Dendritic Cell Function by HPV+ Cervical Cancer Norifumi Iijima, PhD Learn More >>
March 13; 6:00 PM Yale Cancer Center Answers WNPR Survivor Perspective Susan Conley Learn More >> March 15; 12:00 PM Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds 55 Park Street Local Therapy and Metastatic Melanoma: Insanity or the Gold Standard? Mark Faries, MD How Mutant Progenitor Cells Clonally Expand: stochasticity & non-mutational events Douglas Brash, PhD Learn More >>(PDF) March 16; 11:00 AM Radiobiology and Radiotherapy Seminar WWW 201 Activity and Fidelity: Two Stories of Aberrant Function of DNA Polymerase Beta Drew Murphy, PhD Learn More >>(PDF) March 16; 1:00 PM Cancer Immunology Seminar SHM B-201 Follicular Helper T Cells in Immunity and Autoimmunity Joseph Craft, MD Learn More >>(PDF) |
New Faculty Recruits (May 2009 - Present) Anees Chagpar Surgical Oncology Lieping Chen Immunobiology Deborah Chirnomas Pediatric Oncology Leonard Farber Medical Oncology Mark Faries Surgical Oncology Valentina Greco Genetics Stephanie Halene Hematology Roy Herbst Medical Oncology Howard Hochster Medical Oncology Erin Hofstatter Medical Oncology Nina Horowitz Surgical Oncology Michael Hurwitz Medical Oncology Benjamin Judson Otolaryngology Arthur Levy Medical Oncology Miguel Materin Ophthalmology Daniel Morgensztern Medical Oncology Don Nguyen Pathology Abhijit Patel Therapeutic Radiology Nikolai Podoltsev Hematology Katie Politi Pathology Tara Sanft Medical Oncology Stacey Stein Medical Oncology Matthew Strout Hematology Narendra Wajapeyee Pathology Qin Yan Pathology |
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