Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

By Dagny Stuart Harold L. (Hal) Moses, M.D., Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology, has been named a Vanderbilt School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award winner for 2008. Moses, a professor of Cancer Biology and Director Emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and a 1962 medical school graduate, was honored during this year’s Vanderbilt Medical [...]

Dagny Stuart Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D., professor of Cancer Biology and Director Emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been designated a National Associate, an honorary title given in recognition of extraordinary service to the National Research Council in its role as adviser to the nation in matters of science, engineering and health, by the authority [...]

Laurie Holloway Genetic research into the cause of a certain type of leukemia has won Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Elizabeth Yang, M.D., Ph.D., a $50,000 grant. Yang’s research project will study how SHP2 (a cancer-causing gene found in childhood leukemias) causes B cell leukemia. “This innovative research will provide important insights into the disease mechanisms which [...]

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean will be honored during the first annual Dunkin’ Donuts Family Fun Run and Walk-a-Thon benefiting the T.J. Martell Foundation. The event will be held Saturday, Nov. 1, at Hall of Fame Park downtown, and runners are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes. Registration for the 5K run and walk is at [...]

by Leigh MacMillan Lawrence Marnett, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacology, has received the first Founders’ Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Toxicology. The award recognizes Marnett’s contributions to the field of chemical toxicology, “in which he has been a pioneer and unifying force,” the division said in a statement. Marnett [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer has received a new round of grant funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

by Dagny Stuart Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology has received four awards for research excellence by medical residents, presented at this year’s combined conference of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiation Research Society in Boston. Chris Willey, M.D., Ph.D., received this year’s Junior Faculty Research Training Award, [...]

by Leigh MacMillan Location, location, location. For proteins in epithelial cells — the cells that line tissues like the lungs, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract — setting up shop in just the right place is critical to cell function. In a first-of-its-kind study, Robert Coffey, M.D., and colleagues have isolated and characterized the “delivery trucks” — [...]

From 2003 through 2007 Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center recorded a fivefold increase in the number of women choosing to undergo a bilateral mastectomy following a diagnosis of breast cancer in one breast. More than one-third of those patients had no known risk factors for cancer in the second breast, other than their current cancer diagnosis.