Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has earned accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Program (AAHRPP).

By Dagny Stuart Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Nashville has awarded three grants totaling $175,000 to support Vanderbilt breast health initiatives. The Coalition for Healthy Aging Breast Health Initiative (BHI), a program of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services, received two of the grants. The first BHI grant targets women 55 and older [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Utpal Davé, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The three-year award will support research into JAK3, among a family of tyrosine kinase enzymes crucial to cell growth and division. “I am honored to receive this generous grant from [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been ranked as the 13th best cancer program in the United States by U.S. News & World Reports, marking several years of top 20 rankings on the prestigious list of Best Hospitals.

Vanderbilt is pleased to be a sponsor for the 2009 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night Walk on October 1st at LP Field. Dr. Madan Jagasia and Dr. Utpal Davé are serving as Vanderbilt’s honorary co-chairs and would like to invite you to join the Vanderbilt Team for lunch on July 29th in the Cancer [...]

Two Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center physicians and a survivor of adolescent cancer will discuss the challenges of cancer survivorship during a live webcast, Cancer Survivorship: Treating More Than the Tumor.

A newly formed foundation will hold its inaugural fundraiser, Friday, July 17, 6 p.m. in the Listening Room, 209 10th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. Michelle’s Angels Foundation was created in memory of Michelle R. Knoll, formerly of San Antonio, Tx and Nashville, Tenn., who passed following a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Michelle was a patient [...]

While it has not been officially confirmed, reports from South Korea suggest that North Korean president Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s magazine, Momentum, shined a “Spotlight” on this uncommon but deadly form of cancer in its most recent issue. For more information, visit in the online edition: http://www.vicc.org/momentum/spring09/spotlight.html

Writer Kirsten Dorans explores strategies to stay one step ahead of ever-changing cancers. William Pao, M.D., who joined Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center from Memorial Sloan-Kettering earlier this year, is interviewed. Read the article in Nature Medicine: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n7/full/nm0709-718.html

BY: MELISSA MARINO A new method for detecting and quantifying cancer-associated proteins in body fluids may offer a major boost to the development of biomarkers to aid in early cancer detection and personalized cancer therapy. In Nature Biotechnology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers and partners in the National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer [...]