Division of Hematology and Oncology Archive — Page 11 of 15
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January 17, 2019
Spalluto, Lewis to lead VA lung screening initiative
Lucy Spalluto, MD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Jennifer Lewis, MD, MS, instructor in Medicine, have been selected to co-lead the Veterans Affairs — Partnership to increase Access to Lung Screening (VA-PALS) National Program Evaluation. -
January 17, 2019
Research explores link between stem cell transplant, diabetes
About a decade ago, at the beginning of his career in academic medicine, Brian Engelhardt, MD, MSCI, noticed that many of his patients receiving a stem cell transplant for their blood cancer ended up with diabetes. -
December 13, 2018
Philip’s liver cancer research receives V Foundation support
Mary Philip, MD, PhD, has been named a 2019 V Scholar and will receive $200,000 from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. -
November 29, 2018
Teamwork key to treating patient’s rare blood cancer
Former sports journalist Joe Lofaro has little memory of Oct. 23, 2015, when his son Daniel loaded him into a car at his Martin, Tennessee, home and said, ‘Come on, Dad, we’re going for a ride.” -
November 8, 2018
Clinical fellows program bolstered by new NCI grant
A new grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will fund an intensively mentored training experience for clinical fellows at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the next five years. -
October 11, 2018
Cancer Center investigators awarded Komen grants
Four Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have received financial support from Susan G. Komen for breast cancer research. -
June 14, 2018
Lung cancer patients and advocates visit VUMC research labs
A group of young lung cancer patients and their family members recently toured research laboratories at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) to learn how investigators are working to find better therapies and possibly a cure for the disease.