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Yale Cancer Center's Class of 1961 Cancer Research Awards were presented to Nikhil Joshi, PhD, and Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD, at the annual Yale Cancer Center Conclave on January 5, 2023.
- September 22, 2022Source: UNIVISION
Este 22 de septiembre el Instituto de Investigación del Cáncer en Estados Unidos llevará a cabo una conferencia virtual en la que abordará varios temas sobre la inmunoterapia y sus beneficios para los pacientes con cáncer. De acuerdo con Kurt Schalper, profesor de la Universidad de Yale, el objetivo de dicha reunión es lograr que la comunidad hispana tenga acceso a información valiosa acerca de dicho tratamiento. | This September 22, the Institute for Cancer Research in the United States will hold a virtual conference in which it will address various topics about immunotherapy and its benefits for cancer patients. According to Kurt Schalper, a professor at Yale University, the objective of this meeting is to ensure that the Hispanic community has access to valuable information about said treatment.
- September 06, 2022Source: PR Newswire
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization spearheading transformative research to harness the immune system's power to control and potentially cure all cancers, will offer its second annual CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit in Spanish on September 22, 2022, 2-5 p.m. ET. This free virtual event, moderated by TV Host and Entrepreneur Ana Patricia Gámez, and presented completely in Spanish, will connect Hispanic cancer patients and caregivers with groundbreaking research updates from leading immunotherapy experts driving scientific breakthroughs and advancements that impact patient care.
- January 20, 2022
Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital scientists and clinicians are presenting research studies at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal (GI) Symposium.
- December 02, 2021
Chen Liu, MD, PhD, Chair of the Yale Department of Pathology, recently announced the 2021 Faculty Promotions. The 2021 promotion cycle included Natalia Buza, MD, Professor of Pathology, and Themis Kyriakides, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Paul Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Peter Gershkovich, MD, MHA, Associate Professor of Pathology, and Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology.
- June 29, 2021Source: OncLive
The landscape of immunotherapy biomarkers is rapidly evolving, and future developments are likely to have an impact on patients and clinicians alike, said Kurt A. Schalper, MD, PhD, in a virtual presentation during the 5th Annual International Congress on Oncology and Pathology.
- July 01, 2020Source: YaleNews
The award — granted to just 5% of NIH-funded investigators —ensures that Kurt Schalper’s research will be funded for the next seven years. It supports his groundbreaking work identifying novel pathways for cancer immunotherapy which can be used to optimally select and treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
- December 19, 2018
In a new study, Yale Cancer Center scientists suggest that as the number of clinical trials in cancer immunotherapy grows exponentially, some caution should be exercised as we continue to better understand the biology of these new therapeutic targets.
- December 20, 2017Source: Medicine@Yale
The methods and equipment used to probe cellular questions are rapidly advancing—including, at Yale, through the addition in 2014 of CyTOF, or Cytometry Time-Of-Flight, and this past June of the CyTOF Imaging Mass Cytometer (IMC), which greatly expands Yale's ability to examine specimens that are analyzed both for clinical diagnosis and for basic research.
- April 20, 2015
Yale Cancer Center will join a group of prominent cancer research and treatment institutions in a new Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) – American Cancer Society $20 million Dream Team to combat lung cancer.