All Posts: Lombardi Stories
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With a New ‘Map’ of Cells, Georgetown Cancer Researchers Chart a Course to More Effective Treatment
Faculty and students from Biomedical Graduate Education programs, the School of Medicine and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are developing a new technique that could revolutionize the way cancers are tracked and treated. Instead of invasive surgical biopsies or time-consuming scans, clinicians could use simple blood tests to determine where the cancer is and whether it is responding to treatment.
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Tumor Biology Student Sidharth Jain Combines Discovery and Care on MD/PhD Path
As an MD/PhD in Tumor Biology student, Sidharth Jain works between two worlds of health science. On the PhD side, lab research, data analysis and discovery; on the MD side, patients fighting for their lives.
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Celebrating Its 15th Anniversary, Ruesch Center Honors Founder
(November 26, 2024) — Since its establishment in September 2009, the Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has been
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Oral Health Scholars Raise Awareness About the Relationship Between Oral and Systemic Health
While oral health is often treated as something separate from overall health, it can act as an early warning system for serious conditions, including cancer and heart disease. With funding from the George E. Richmond Foundation, researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are training graduate and undergraduate students to educate their communities about the importance of oral health and studying how to promote oral health in cancer survivors via a novel telehealth intervention.
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Months After Chemotherapy, MD/PhD Student Bikes 50 Miles for Cancer Research
A year and a half into medical school at Georgetown, Bryan Weselman was diagnosed with cancer. Now, he’s researching cancer to improve treatment for other patients.
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Lombardi Women Celebrate Breast Cancer Patients and Researchers
From its humble beginnings 18 years ago with a group of women at the Palm restaurant in Tysons Corner, Lombardi Women: Connecting for a Cure has grown into a fundraising powerhouse, netting more than $5 million in donations for breast cancer research at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. This year’s event was held September 26.
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Celebrating ‘Thrivership’
Survivors of melanoma and kidney cancer gathered to celebrate “thrivership” during a luncheon that might not have been possible as recently as 10 years ago as people with these types of cancer are living longer and experiencing cures.
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Georgetown Lombardi’s Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, Honored with Hyundai Hope on Wheels Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology
Hyundai Hope On Wheels, one of the largest nonprofit funders of pediatric cancer research in the country, has awarded its first Hyundai Hope on Wheels Endowed Chair for Pediatric Oncology to Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Competitive Cancer Research Internship Program Offers Rewarding Experiences for Undergraduates
This year, 10 rising sophomores, juniors and seniors from colleges and universities across the country participated in the 10-week full-time Diversity in Cancer Research Undergraduate Internship Program, which affords students from populations underrepresented in science the opportunity to get a broad view of what cancer research is.
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For This Medical Student, Her Cancer Research Is for Her Little Sister
Ritu Amarnani (M’27), a second-year medical student, spent this summer researching cancer care at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. She turned her career focus toward medicine after her younger sister’s cancer diagnosis and death.
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