Denise and Larry Mason Society
The love story of Denise and Larry Mason spans decades and crosses the country, beginning in New York City in 1959, when they first met and fell in love. At the time, Larry held a Fine Arts Degree from the…
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Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD
Researcher Spotlight: Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD MD Anderson Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) grantee Dr. Laurence Cooper is passionate about using the body’s immune system to fight lymphoma. He helped conduct the first in-human clinical trial of adoptive immunotherapy for patients…
Peter Riedell, MD
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)…
Sami Malek, MD
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…
Catherine Wu, MD
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 treatments,”…
Hans-Guido Wendel, MD
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 for…
Samuel Katz, MD, PhD
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 more…
Neil Kay, MD
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 about…
Victor Yazbeck, MD, MS
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…
Jason Westin, MD
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 or…