Center News & Funding, Research
Jul 12, 2021
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It grows slowly and has a positive prognosis if detected early; however, prostate cancer typically spreads to the bone wh...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jul 02, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher David Wheeler, M.P.H., Ph.D., was awarded more than $1.3 million in total funding through a U01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better understand environmental, geographic and socioeconomic risk factors that lead to bladder cancer and non-Hodgkin...
Research, Center News & Funding
Jun 28, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center scientist Senthil Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., has been awarded $792,000 over four years by the American Cancer Society to explore a new approach to treating triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC accounts for about 15 percent of all breast cancers diagnosed and disproportiona...
Research
Jun 22, 2021
To commemorate Pride Month 2021, the Biden administration issued a proclamation that celebrates the accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community but also acknowledges the ongoing struggle to secure equity for this population in many areas impacted by government policy, including health care. In line wit...
Research
Jun 16, 2021
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the pancreas, a long and flat gland located behind the stomach that helps with digestion and blood sugar regulation. Because pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early, it is associated with a low survival...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Jun 09, 2021
Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D., was recently conferred the 2021 Women in Science, Dentistry and Medicine Professional Achievement Award from the VCU School of Medicine. Sheppard is the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Chair in Cancer Prevention and Control and associate director for community outreach, engage...
Research
Jun 07, 2021
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., a research member at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the director of Massey’s Biostatistics Shared Resource, recently won the 2021 Outstanding Statistical Applications Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his paper “Bayesian Nonparametric Policy Searc...
Prevention & Control, Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 27, 2021
On Thursday, May 20, in honor of Brain Cancer Awareness Month, VCU Massey Cancer Center’s neuro-oncology team presented an “Insider’s Experience” virtual panel presentation highlighting critical breakthroughs and advances in neuro-oncology that are improving care of patients with brain cancer. “[Ou...
Research
May 25, 2021
Young men with obesity are at risk for developing a host of health complications, including cancer, heart disease and cardiometabolic disease. To better understand the behaviors that contribute to obesity in this demographic and identify solutions, researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center are testing...
Clinical, Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 20, 2021
In March 2020, when the pandemic hit, there were no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. A little more than a year later, much of the world is being vaccinated, and fewer people with COVID-19 are dying — kept alive and off ventilators with the help of approved treatments. None of that woul...
Research
May 19, 2021
Nearly a quarter of pregnant women say they’ve been around secondhand smoke – in their homes, at work, around a friend or relative – which, according to new research, is linked to epigenetic changes – meaning changes to how genes are regulated rather than changes to the genetic code itself – in babi...
Research
May 10, 2021
Sean Koebley, Ph.D., was recently bestowed the 2021 VCU Science Communication Award for his presentation: “Goodbye, P-value: Practical Bayesian Statistics To Replace Frequentist Statistics.” Koebley is a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department at VCU, where he works with VCU Massey Cancer Cent...
Research, Center News & Funding
May 06, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., was recently named as one of 30 scientists among the first-ever class of an international fellows program established by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The ASBMB launched this honorific program to recogn...
Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 05, 2021
Among the upper echelons of academic surgery, Black and Latinx representation has remained flat over the past six years, according to a study published today in JAMA Surgery by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and University of Florida Health. The study tracked t...
Research
Apr 30, 2021
Through T cell engineering, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center show that it’s possible to arrest tumor growth for a variety of cancers and squash the spread of cancer to other tissues. This research will be published in tomorrow’s print edition of Cancer Research. ...
Research
Apr 30, 2021
The All of Us Research Program seeks to enroll a million or more people living in the United States. Health care is generally one-size-fits-all. When you visit the doctor, your treatments are often the same as everyone else’s. Wouldn’t it be great if your health care were tailored specifically to yo...
Research
Apr 26, 2021
The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth and development and the production of milk during pregnancy. But a pair of recent studies conducted at VCU Massey Cancer Center finds strong evidence that prolactin also acts as a major contributor to breast cancer ...
Research
Apr 19, 2021
Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and could serve as a therapeutic target to treat the disease. Mutations in the p53 gene are found in more than half of all cancers, but it remains diff...
Research
Apr 13, 2021
E-cigarettes that deliver a cigarette-like amount of nicotine are associated with reduced smoking and reduced exposure to the major tobacco-related pulmonary carcinogen, NNAL, even with concurrent smoking, according to a new study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Penn State...
Research
Apr 01, 2021
Oncologists and clinical cancer researchers from across the state gathered virtually for VCU Massey Cancer Center’s tenth annual Cancer Symposium and Clinical Research Affiliate Network Retreat on March 20. The symposium provided continued professional education for clinicians while the retreat he...
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