All Posts: News Release

• Clarivate Analytics and Georgetown University Named a USPTO Cancer Moonshot Challenge Winner

  Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced its third place win with Georgetown University in the USPTO Cancer Moonshot Challenge held by the U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, medical informatics

• Chris Mortensen to Receive the 2016 NFLPA Georgetown Lombardi Award

  Award-winning ESPN journalist Chris Mortensen has been named this year’s NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award honoree. Mortensen and his courageous battle against cancer will be recognized at the 30th Anniversary Lombardi Gala on October 29 in Washington, D.C.

  Category: News Release Tags: Lombardi Gala, philanthropy

• Inhibiting Production of One Protein Restores Treatment Benefit in Resistant Breast Cancer

  A team of investigators led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has found, in animal models of human breast cancer, that inhibiting a single protein restores sensitivity to tamoxifen, a commonly used drug for treatment of some breast cancers.

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research

• Statement from Louis Weiner, MD, on the Death of Stuart Scott

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (January 4, 2015) — The Georgetown Lombardi family is saddened to learn today of Stuart Scott’s passing. This fall, we chose Stuart to re

  Category: News Release Tag: Lombardi Gala

• Exercise Protects Against Aggressive Breast Cancer in Black Women

  A nearly 20-year observational study involving more than 44,700 black women nationwide found that regular vigorous exercise offers significant protection against development of the most aggressive subtypes of breast cancer.

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer research, health disparities