UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, in partnership with P3R, announced their inaugural “Rush to Crush Cancer,” a new fundraising biking event to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation in cancer research. The event’s goal is to bring people together to pedal, partner, and participate in raising vital funds to support cancer research and someday soon "crush" cancer.
Congratulations to Michael T. Lotze, MD, who has been selected to receive the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Immunotherapy for Cancer (SITC) in recognition of his outstanding service and leadership and dedication to advancing the society’s mission and vision.
Congratulations to surgical oncology fellow Samer T. Tohme, MD, whose project “The Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Promoting the Progression of Metastases after Surgical Stress” will be funded by the UPMC Competitive Medical Research Fund.
Congratulations to surgical oncology fellow Samer T. Tohme, MD, who was a winner of the 3rd Community Liver Alliance Research Grant in the amount of $25,000 for his research project “Mechanisms of Metastatic Progression after Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion.” The Community Liver Alliance presented a check to Dr. Tohme at their Board of Directors meeting on December 17, 2019.
On November 19, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center held a welcome reception to honor their new faculty, who included new department surgical oncology faculty members Andrew J. Lee, MD, PhD; Joanna Lee, MD; Jason Lohmueller, PhD; Patrick Murphy, PhD; Melanie Ongchin, MD; Alessandro Paniccia, MD; and Norman Wolmark, MD.
Daniel G. Coit, MD, Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, presented the eighth annual 2019 Donald Blechman Lecture in Surgical Oncology on September 25, 2019. His lecture was titled, “The Evolving Understanding of Regional Lymph Nodes in Surgical Oncology.”
Norman Wolmark, MD, a prominent surgeon and cancer researcher, will be joining the department as Professor of Surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In addition, he will serve in a new position at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center as Director of National Cancer Institute Cooperative Group Clinical Trials. He will retain his role as Chairman of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and as contact principal investigator of NRG Oncology.
