All Posts: Lombardi Stories

• Celebrating a Milestone in Cancer Research

  This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of a paper by now-Georgetown Lombardi member Marc E. Lippman, MD, MACP, FRCP, and his colleague Gail Bolan, MD, that showed for the first time that the hormone estrogen can drive the growth of breast cancer. It was a pivotal moment in cancer research that has led to life-extending and lifesaving treatments for the thousands of people who develop breast cancer each year.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer research, cancer, estrogen and breast cancer, Marc Lippman

• Georgetown Faculty Share Research and Explore Collaborations on Global Cervical Cancer

  In June 2025, the Global Cancer Collaborative, a joint initiative between the Georgetown University Global Health Institute and Georgetown Lombardi, hosted a seminar on cervical cancer. Three presenters from Georgetown, including Lombardi member Alejandra Hurtado de Mendoza, PhD, detailed their current work, and attendees from across the university were invited to discuss new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, cervical cancer, Eswatini, Global Cancer Collaborative, global oncology, Guatemala, HPV, India

• Men’s Event Celebrates 25 Years of Advances in Cancer Research

  At the 25th anniversary of the Men’s Event, benefiting Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, attendees celebrated the developments that have improved the prognosis for those diagnosed with the most prevalent types of men’s cancers, including advances in immunotherapy, precision medicine and minimally invasive surgery.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: men's health, Men's Event, philanthropy, prostate cancer

• Lombardi Gala Brings Together Friends, Supporters

  Continuing a tradition spanning nearly four decades, more than 450 friends and supporters of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center gathered for an evening of elegant fun and fundraising at the 37th annual Lombardi Gala.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: Lombardi Gala, philanthropy

• Gift Strengthens Support for Parents with Cancer and Their Families

  Georgetown Lombardi announces the establishment of a new initiative designed to provide information and support services to parents with cancer. Thanks to a substantial gift from Elizabeth’s Smile, a cancer support organization co-founded by Nancy Hungerford, Georgetown Lombardi will develop an Interventions for Managing Parenting and Cancer Team (IMPACT) and a signature program called Family Circle by Elizabeth’s Smile.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: family support, philanthropy, support services

• Georgetown Secures Highest Research Classification for the 30th Year

  Georgetown has received the highest classification for its research and training, earning the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education’s designation as an “R1” institution. The designation, awarded to U.S. universities with “very high research activity,” marks the 30th year Georgetown has achieved top-tier stature.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical research, Carnegie Classification, research

• 4th Annual Kovach Lecture Focuses on Survivorship

  (January 16, 2025) — The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosted the fourth-annual Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture at Georgetown on Jan. 9, spotlighting one of Georgetown’s core

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cura personalis, Kovach Lecture, philanthropy, survivorship, Survivorship Research Initiative

• 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.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, cancer screening, education, liquid biopsy

• 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.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, biomedical research, education, liquid biopsy, Tumor Biology Program

• 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

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: Luminary Awards, Ruesch Center, Ruesch Center Symposium