Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Jan 24, 2022
Massey Cancer Center is working with analytics leader SAS to power vital research into higher cancer and mortality rates among low-income and vulnerable populations. SAS and Massey will create the Massey Research Analytics Hub, a secure, cloud-based platform with easy-to-use visualizations of quant...
Center News & Funding
Jan 18, 2022
The Massey Alliance, VCU Massey Cancer Center’s young professionals board, focuses on advocating and fundraising on behalf of the cancer center. The group works tirelessly year-round to help advance Massey’s innovative work and to help make a future without cancer possible. “One goal of the Massey A...
Center News & Funding, Clinical
Jan 18, 2022
On March 1, Renato G. Martins, M.D., M.P.H., will become the new chair of hematology, oncology and palliative care at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Department of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine. “I could not be more enthusiastic about joining VCU and Massey. I am inspired by the m...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jan 13, 2022
Robert A. Winn, M.D., director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Association of Cancer Executives (ACE) 28th Annual Meeting. ACE is a national organization offering continuing education in the areas of oncology, clinical researc...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Dec 07, 2021
In 2022, VCU Massey Cancer Center will invest in community-led initiatives that aim to improve the health outcomes for Virginians. The new Massey Cancer Center Community Grant Program will help community partners expand programs focused on the promotion of health, health equity, person-centered care...
Center News & Funding, Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Dec 06, 2021
VCU Health’s new Adult Outpatient Pavilion opened on the MCV Campus on December 6, and the facility brings patient care to new heights both literally and figuratively. At 17 stories, the project is VCU Health’s tallest building to date, and it is poised to transform the way outpatient care is provid...
Center News & Funding, Adult Outpatient Pavilion, Clinical, Technology
Dec 06, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center at the Adult Outpatient Pavilion is now open! Located just off I-95, VCU Health’s new 17-story Adult Outpatient Pavilion is conveniently located at the corner of North 10th and East Leigh streets, on the MCV campus in downtown Richmond. The new 615,000-square foot facility c...
Center News & Funding, Clinical, Technology
Dec 01, 2021
Beginning Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, VCU Massey Cancer Center will go live with Epic, a modern electronic health record (EHR) widely used by academic health systems, hospitals and large medical practices nationwide. All Massey locations and clinics are adopting the new system on the same day, with the...
Center News & Funding
Nov 29, 2021
Donor Spotlight: Giving thanks on Giving Tuesday One team. One fight. One day of giving. On GivingTuesday, Massey sat down with Richard “Dick” Luck, Ed.D. (M.S.’68/HP) and his wife, Dudley, to talk about their motivations for giving to Massey and the benefits of establishing a charitable remainder...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Nov 19, 2021
Dean Jarrett was an epic person. A native Virginian and proud Richmonder, Dean was a golf enthusiast, a lover of travel and adventure and a skilled communicator. He was a big-hearted giver who was always ready to share a smile. More than anything, Dean Jarrett was a loving husband, father and frie...
Center News & Funding
Nov 11, 2021
Walter Lawrence, Jr., M.D., who died this week at age 96, was respected and beloved worldwide for his expertise as a surgical oncologist. He ran a surgical hospital during the Korean War, oversaw the first Division of Surgical Oncology at VCU and served as the inaugural director of VCU Massey Cancer...
Center News & Funding
Nov 10, 2021
Bank of America and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center today announced a gift of $150,000 from Bank of America to VCU Massey Cancer Center to combat cancer health inequities. The grant, which will be distributed over three years, will advance Massey’s work through the Offic...
Research, Center News & Funding
Nov 09, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center recently renewed its Institutional Research Grant (IRG) from the American Cancer Society(ACS) – a program that has been providing seed money to early-career cancer researchers at VCU for nearly 50 years. The grant totals $300,000 over the course of three years. A committee ...
Center News & Funding
Nov 09, 2021
The VCU Massey Cancer Center family was saddened today to learn of the passing of its first cancer center director, Walter Lawrence, Jr., M.D. Current director, Robert A. Winn, M.D., released the following statement: "It’s not often we get the chance to stand on the shoulders of giants. It’s safe to...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Nov 03, 2021
Contemporary artist Julie Fritz is inspired by the world around her. The landscapes she paints — including scenic places like creeks, rivers, bays, lakes and oceans — are layered in oil, wax and other substances that abstract the realism of the scenes depicted to evoke a reaction and tell a story. ...
Center News & Funding
Nov 01, 2021
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center hosted two delegates from the Embassy of India in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2021, as part of a daylong visit to both the Monroe Park and MCV campuses. Dhananjay Tiwary, Ph.D., science and technology counselor, and Anshul Sharma, co...
Center News & Funding
Oct 21, 2021
The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) recognized VCU Massey Cancer Center director Robert A. Winn, M.D., with its inaugural Cancer Health Equity Award at the AACI/Cancer Center Administrators Forum (CCAF) Annual Meeting. Winn, who also holds the Lipman Chair in Oncology at Massey and ...
Center News & Funding
Oct 21, 2021
Two institutions with different skills and perspectives are teaming up to create a program that’s the first-of-its-kind in the state of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center (Massey) and Virginia State University (VSU) have received a prestigious “team science” grant from th...
Center News & Funding, Research
Oct 19, 2021
Cory Fines likes a challenge. The Virginia Commonwealth University Ph.D. student became interested in cancer research as a kid, not because someone close to him was affected, but because it was hard. “My initial interest in cancer was simply because it's a big problem,” he said. “Within each cancer,...
Center News & Funding
Oct 06, 2021
Doctors often remove lymph nodes to check whether cancer has spread from the breast to surrounding tissue, but that’s now avoidable for many patients in the Commonwealth Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center is the first in the state of Virginia to use an FDA-approved substance calle...
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.
