Department of Oncology
Howard Temin, photo from the Nobel Foundation archive “Throughout the 1970s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right.” – Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History Season 4, Episode 10 podcast “The Obscure Virus Club”exposes listeners to …
Left to right: Don Fechner, Karen Schwarz, and Richard Burgess at Don’s 90th birthday celebration on Sunday, August 18, 2019. Don Fechner turned 90 years on September 11, 2019. McArdlites who shared any time at the lab with Don agree that he is incredibly kind and was an invaluable member of the McArdle team. He …
Aurélia Faure, the paper’s first author, holding cell cultures. Primary Effusion Lymphomas (PELs) are a highly aggressive blood cancer found in immunosuppressed individuals, such as people living with HIV, that researchers have long struggled to study due to the difficulty of developing similar cells in the lab. The lymphomas kill patients within six months of …
Janesville Summer Research Institute students at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer research (7/25). Last Thursday, students from the Janesville Summer Research Institute visited the McArdle Laboratory. The six-week program is headed by Dr. Zach Pratt, a researcher and former graduate student at McArdle. Throughout the course, the students learned about bacteria, viral infections, and genetics. …
Dr. Yongna Xing and Jordan Lang, March 2019 in front of angel’s wings made by patient families. Jordan’s parents spent years visiting doctors to find out why their baby girl wasn’t meeting developmental milestones. After getting a diagnosis in 2016 by whole-exome sequencing, they began connecting researchers and patient families to collaborate and learn more …
Errors in cell division can cause cancer. Here, chromosomes in blue are being pulled in the wrong directions by the microtubules in red which will result in aneuploidy. Photo by Ryan A. Denu of the UW Carbone Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute Dr. Aussie Suzuki is studying the fundamental mechanisms of cell division to …
The program project grant team (left to right): Nathan Sherer, PhD, Shannon C. Kenney, MD, Paul F. Lambert, PhD ’85, Janet E. Mertz, PhD, Eric C. Johannsen, MD, Paul Ahlquist, PhD ’81, Daniel Loeb, PhD, and Bill Sugden, PhD. 2018-19 was a banner year for McArdle’s Cancer Virology program. First, the program renewed a ~$10 …
Dr. Bill Sugden (left) and Dr. Zach Pratt (right) Dr. Bill Sugden and his colleagues pulled together the Bridging Education and Science Today for Tomorrow (BESTT) team to participate in the UW Carbone’s Race for Research 5k this Saturday, June 15. The team is raising money for the Summer Research Institute, a program that will …
Harold Rusch, MD ’33 Many McArdle achievements were highlighted in a piece about the UW Carbone Cancer Center, featured in a recent issue of the School of Medicine and Public Health’s magazine, Quarterly. Mentions include Harold Rusch forming McArdle as the nation’s first cancer research department in 1940 and serving as its inaugural director, and …
The BESTT team at the UW Carbone’s Race for Research. From left to right: Zach Pratt, Quincy Rosemarie, Adityarup Chakravorty, Rebecca Hutcheson, Adriel Taslim, Bill Sugden, Donata Oertel, Nathan Sherer Dr. Bill Sugden’s lab spent the last month raising money for the Summer Research Institute, a cancer research program for high school students in the Janesville School …