Center News & Funding
Apr 07, 2021
Richmond Magazine’s annual list of “Top Docs” once again recognizes a number of VCU Massey Cancer Center physicians. Featured in the magazine’s April 2021 issue, the list includes 46 doctors from varied specialties who provide oncology-related care to Massey’s patients, including 16 who care for ped...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Mar 29, 2021
Your doctor is more than a caregiver. At VCU Massey Cancer Center, our doctors are champions, confidants and, through challenging times, heroes. National Doctors’ Day honors physicians across the U.S. for their dedication to their patients and commitment to improving health. Cancer does not stop fo...
Center News & Funding, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Mar 26, 2021
A group of cancer specialists at VCU Massey Cancer Center were recently awarded $5 million from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to implement a lung cancer screening and precision oncology program within the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System (CVHCS). Co-principal investigat...
Center News & Funding
Feb 25, 2021
For Richmond developer and cancer survivor George Emerson (B.S.’78/B) and four of Richmond’s top builders at Eagle Construction, Eastwood Homes, HHHunt Homes and Main Street Homes, showing and selling new riverfront homes in the Chesterfield neighborhood of Meadowville Landing this year is about mor...
Center News & Funding
Feb 03, 2021
Susan Hong, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, joined VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Health in January as the director of the Cancer Survivorship Program. She also holds the RGC Professorship in Cancer Research and is an associate professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care at the VCU ...
Center News & Funding
Dec 15, 2020
This week, VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Health System welcomed Katie Barnes, MPA, as vice president of the Cancer Service Line. The Cancer Service Line is a new collaborative model designed to fulfill strategic initiatives for Massey while maintaining close alignment with VCU Health System. “In ...
Center News & Funding
Nov 19, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher John Hackett, Ph.D., is at the forefront of integrating computer simulations with laboratory experiments to understand complex biological systems at the molecular level. His work has tremendous implications for the development of drugs to treat a range of diseases...
Center News & Funding
Sep 09, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Larisa Litovchick, M.D., Ph.D., was recently awarded $465,000 from the National Institute of Dental and Cranial Research to further investigate how human papillomavirus (HPV) leads to head and neck cancers. Findings may aid the development of novel targeted treatm...
Center News & Funding
Aug 04, 2020
Mutations in the p53 gene are found in more than half of all cancers, yet it has proven to be very difficult to target the gene with therapeutic drugs even 40 years after its discovery. VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers Sumitra Deb, Ph.D., and Brad Windle, Ph.D., are hoping to turn the tide with ...
Center News & Funding
Jul 20, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., was recently elected as a member of the prestigious International Statistical Institute. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1885 to promote the understanding, development and good pra...
Center News & Funding
Jul 06, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have been awarded a grant totaling more than $1.4 million over four years from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to drive the development of a new treatment for MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma, an aggressive subset of pediatric nervous system cancer marked by over...
Center News & Funding
Jul 06, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center has received a UM1 sub-award from the National Cancer Institute to participate in the North American Star Consortium (NASC), an association of leading cancer institutes that collaborate on novel National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored clinical trials featuring some of the ...
Center News & Funding
Jul 01, 2020
VCU Massey Cancer Center director Robert Winn, M.D., recently joined the boards of directors of two influential cancer organizations, the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) and LUNGevity Foundation. The AACI is a membership-based organization comprised of 102 of the leading academic an...
Center News & Funding
May 22, 2020
Eleven VCU Massey Cancer Center research members will receive funding to quickly pivot or expand their work to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health system and the community. The researchers were among nearly 70 investigators who applied for support through the VCU COVID-19 Rapid...
Center News & Funding
May 20, 2020
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., a research member at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the director of Massey’s Biostatistics Shared Resource core, has been selected by the Washington Statistical Society and RTI International as the 2020 Gertrude M. Cox awardee. Bandyopadhyay, who is also a professor in t...
Research, Center News & Funding
Apr 29, 2020
Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center were awarded $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to study whether a novel combination therapy can stimulate the immune system and enhance treatment response in triple negative breast cancer. David Gewirtz, Ph.D., member of the Developmental Therape...
Center News & Funding
Apr 13, 2020
Robert Winn, M.D., began as director of VCU Massey Cancer Center in December 2019 and has quickly hit the ground running to enact an ambitious agenda. Since early March he has also led Massey’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the lives of many patients and families. Protecting cancer pat...
Center News & Funding
Apr 10, 2020
Massey researcher Xiang-Yang (Shawn) Wang, Ph.D., has been appointed as the co-leader of the Developmental Therapeutics (DT) research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center. He will serve in this role alongside Steven Grant, M.D., who has co-led the program since 2011, and Anthony Faber, Ph.D., who has...
Center News & Funding
Mar 16, 2020
The retreat provided an opportunity for Massey’s clinical research partners from across the state to learn about promising clinical trials and discuss administrative topics related to clinical research operations and collaborations. This year’s discussions focused on Massey’s UPBEAT clinical trial f...
Center News & Funding, Research
Dec 10, 2019
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Chuck Harrell, Ph.D., was awarded $450,000 from Susan G. Komen to identify new drug combinations that can be used to more effectively treat a key population of advanced breast cancer patients. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of disease t...
Treatments in clinical trials may be more effective or have fewer side effects than the treatments that are currently available. With more than 200 studies for multiple types of cancers and cancer prevention, Massey supports a wide array of clinical trials.
Massey supports hundreds of top cancer specialists serving the needs of our patients. Massey’s medical team provides a wealth of expertise in cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention and symptom management.
