Department of Oncology
Above: a panel from the JKX comic strip “EBV and the Replication Dance” (left), an image of Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani from the JKX Women’s History Month feature “Women in STEM” (top right), and the JKX founders Jaye Gardiner, Ph.D., Khoa Tran, Ph.D., and Kelly Montgomery (bottom right, from left to right). Featured image …
It is always wonderful to meet individuals in our community who try to make a difference in our fight against cancer. Sonja Henriksen is just such a person. For 16 years she has organized the BC Golf Rally at the Foxboro Golf Club in Oregon, Wisconsin to raise funds for breast cancer research. Sonja visited …
On Friday, January 20, 2017, teachers and other staff from the Verona Area High School hosted the 11th Annual Night of Hope fundraiser for cancer research to benefit the McArdle Laboratory. The Night of Hope was started in 2006 as a fundraiser for a local family touched by cancer, and grew into an annual event …
A new study from Dr. Yongna Xing’s group at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) and the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, solved the structure of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) transcriptional complex. AHR responds to diverse chemicals and cellular metabolites …
Are you a golfer who wants to support breast cancer research? Then here is a perfect way. Enjoy the beautiful day this coming Saturday, September 16th, 2017, by participating in the Breast Cancer Golf Rally at the Foxboro Golf Club in Oregon, WI, 20 minutes from UW, and in the process raise money to support …
Clockwise from top left: Bill Sudgen, Arthur Sugden, Ya-Fang Chiu, Mitch Hayes, and Kathryn (Norby) Fox Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) causes tumors in people, often among those who are immunocompromised. It is related to Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) which is a human tumor virus, too. Both viruses maintain their DNAs as plasmids in tumor cells. We …
Dr. Wei Xu (left) and new Komen Fellow Dr. Eui-Jun Kim (right). Eui-Jun Kim, a post-doctoral fellow training in the laboratory of Wei Xu (Messerschmidt Professor of Oncology), was awarded a $185,000 research fellowship from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study triple-negative breast cancer, a devastating subtype of breast cancer for which the only …
Teriflunomide inhibits the growth of EBV-transformed cells in a mouse model. Immune-deficient mice were injected under the skin on their flanks with cells carrying luminescent EBV. Once a small tumor had grown, mice were treated with teriflunomide three times per week. This image shows the amount of luminescence 13 days after treatment was started. Purple …
Every year, Sun Prairie High School seniors decide on a way they would like to give back to their community before graduation. Two beloved faculty members at Sun Prairie had recently passed away due to cancer, motivating the 2017 graduating class to focus their donation on supporting cancer research at McArdle. “Every student in our high school had known at least one of the …
Dr. Megan Spurgeon, a scientist in Dr. Paul Lambert’s group, is the first recipient at the University of Wisconsin of an R50 Research Specialist Award. This new funding mechanism from the National Cancer Institute seeks to “encourage the development of stable research career opportunities for exceptional scientists who want to pursue research within the context of an existing cancer research …