Department of Oncology
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 …
Dr. Wei Xu (front row, third from the right) with her fellow awardees at the AACR Grants Reception and Dinner on April 2, 2019. Photo by © AACR/Matt Herp 2019. Wei Xu and her laboratory have been awash in a wave of recent successes, receiving multiple funding awards for their investigations into estrogen signaling and breast …
Dr. F. Michael Hoffmann, a co-principal investigator on the UW2020 grant Anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics or other drugs have always been a key tool at doctors’ disposal for treating patients with a range of diseases. However, the first step in finding molecules that eventually make it to the clinic is both expensive and time-consuming, so anything …
McArdle facutly member Dr. Bill Dove, senior author on the paper. If caught early, nearly all cases of colon cancer are curable. Though this should make screening tests straightforward, colon cancer screening suffers from a paradoxical combination of low compliance rates and overdiagnosis. In a study published April 8, 2019, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, …
A five-year, $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will support UW Carbone Cancer Center physician-researcher and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research faculty member Dr. Dusty Deming and colleagues in their pursuit of more effective treatments for colorectal-cancer patients. With the funding, researchers at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and UW Carbone will grow colon cancer cells from patient-derived tissue …
On July 12-13, the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in collaboration with the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) and Carbone Cancer Center welcomed 31 grandparents and their grandchildren into the lab to learn about fundamental cancer research techniques and concepts as part of the “Researching Cancer Cures” major for Grandparents University®, or GPU. This experience …
Sometimes cancer development is not just about a cell having mutations in its DNA, but about when and how those mutations change the cell’s behavior. UW Carbone Cancer Center member Peter Lewis, PhD, studies how these behavioral changes can lead to cells becoming cancer – and how clinicians and researchers can take advantage of these …
A sampling of the goods created by the Family Crafters In Brillion, WI, an amazing family works throughout the year to create craft goods to sell at farmers’ markets, craft shows, and grocery stores. Together, they are the Family Crafters, using their time and talents to raise money for cancer research in a unique and …