Researcher Spotlight: John P. Leonard, MD Weill Cornell Medicine Chemotherapy is an effective strategy in treating many lymphoma patients, however, its toxicity and the growing number of effective novel therapies for lymphoma has prompted researchers to explore chemotherapy-free options…
Researcher Spotlight: Peter Riedell, MD Washington University in Saint Louis Dr. Riedell’s Lymphoma Clinical Research Mentoring Program (LCRMP) project focuses on mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Noting that recent research has indicated Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors (such as ibrutinib)…
Researcher Spotlight: Sami Malek, MD University of Michigan School of Medicine Dr. Malek, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, received a Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Collaborative Grant from the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) in…
Researcher Spotlight: Catherine Wu, MD Stanford School of Medicine “I have always been interested in understanding the ‘why’ of how disease arises, and have always felt strongly that doing so is the most effective way of devising truly effective…
Researcher Spotlight: Hans-Guido Wendel, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Translational research transforms scientific discoveries that occur in the laboratory into new treatments for lymphoma and other types of cancer. This important step in the search for new therapies…
Researcher Spotlight: Samuel Katz, MD, PhD Yale University Dr. Katz, an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Yale University, recently completed work on research funded by a Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) Mantle Cell Lymphoma Developmental/Exploratory Grant. As researchers have learned…
Researcher Spotlight: Neil Kay, MD Mayo Clinic A prognostic index is a clinical tool used by oncologists to predict the duration, function, and disease progression for a patient with a particular type of cancer. As researchers have learned more…
Researcher Spotlight: Jonathan Schatz, MD University of MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) established its Clinical Investigator Career Development Awards (CDA) to facilitate early career clinical scientists in establishing themselves as independent investigators in lymphoma research.…
Researcher Spotlight: Victor Yazbeck, MD, MS Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Cancer Center Lymphoma patients with relapsed or refractory disease are often resistant to current therapies. Dr. Yazbeck’s LRF Clinical Research Mentoring Program (LCRMP) project is an early phase clinical…
Researcher Spotlight: Jason Westin, MD MD Anderson Cancer Center Dr. Westin’s LRF Clinical Research Mentoring Program (LCRMP) project aims to improve the diagnostic and prognostic tools for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. DLBCL patents who do not respond…