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Bonnie’s Bus continues to support West Virginia women thanks to Pink Party
The WVU Cancer Institute held its annual Pink Party event on Monday, September 10, to benefit Bonnie’s Bus, the mobile mammography unit that travels across West Virginia to provide mammograms to the women of the state.
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WVU Cancer Institute offering groundbreaking treatment for gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
The WVU Cancer Institute is participating in the implementation of a new drug therapy for the treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), a type of tumor that can form in the pancreas or in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, and appendix. These life-threatening tumors can spread to other organs, such as the liver.
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Health Sciences Town Hall to focus on One Mountaineer Family
Meshea Poore, vice president for the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at WVU, will be the special guest at a Health Sciences Town Hall during WVU’s Diversity Week celebrations.
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With severe storm approaching the East Coast, WVU reminds campus community about safety and resources
The West Virginia University Police and Office of Emergency Management urges students, faculty and staff to be prepared as the state braces for the impact of Hurricane Florence, making landfall along the East Coast later this week.
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Samuels to join WVU Cancer Institute as Major Gifts Director
Tiffany Samuels will become the Major Gifts Director for the Cancer Institute effective September 10. Tiffany served successfully as Director of Development for WVU Reed College of Media since 2015. She now looks forward to focusing her efforts on the Cancer Institute. “As a West Virginia native and resident; I can think of no greater impact that I can have on my state that to represent the health care needs of my neighbors.” Please join me in thanking Tiffany for all of her great work at Reed and congratulate her as she embarks on her next chapter at WVU. Tiffany may be reached at tiffany.samuels@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-293-8604.
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Campo to discuss suicide prevention at Festival of Ideas series
This season’s Festival of Ideas at WVU kicks off on Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. at the Health Sciences Center's Okey Patteson auditorium. Dr. John Campo will present "Suicide Prevention Across the Lifespan and the Rural-Urban Continuum."
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Gillison to present Annual DeLynn Lecture
The WVU Cancer Institute will hold its Annual DeLynn Lecture with Maura L. Gillison, MD, PhD, who will lecture on HPV and the Host Genome, at 4 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the WVU Health Sciences Center's Fukushima Auditorium (room 1901). A Q&A session will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For those who cannot attend, the event also will be webcast.
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Immigration information session to be held at the Health Sciences Campus
The Office of Global Affairs will hold an immigration information session on at the WVU Health Sciences Center on Wed., Sept. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room 1905 Health Sciences North.
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Evening of Science: Focus on Experimental Therapeutics
Join us on Oct. 30, 2018 for a series of conversations on the topic of experimental therapeutics.
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WVU in the news: WVU researchers working to stop cancer-growth protein
Yehenew Agazie, an associate professor of biochemistry at the WVU School of Medicine, received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate a new breast cancer treatment that is especially effective against recurrent tumors.
