All Posts: philanthropy
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Fauci Reflects on Cura Personalis in Patient Care and Public Service at Kovach Lecture
This year’s Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture featured Anthony Fauci, MD (HON’90) in conversation with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell (C’95, SCS’03, HON’24).
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Lombardi Women Celebrate Advances in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
At the 19th annual Lombardi Women event, more than 460 attendees gathered to celebrate the doctors, nurses, researchers, patients, survivors and supporters engaged in the fight against breast cancer and show their support for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in Washington, D.C.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Toretsky Named Inaugural Hyundai Hope on Wheels Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology
In honor of his dedication to pediatric cancer research, Jeffrey A. Toretsky, MD, professor of oncology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, was formally named the inaugural holder of the Hyundai Hope on Wheels Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology during an investiture celebration at Riggs Library.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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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.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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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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