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: 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 or…
Researcher Spotlight: Craig Portell, MD University of Virginia Dr. Portell, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA), joined UVA’s faculty in order to work with Dr. Michael E. Williams, a Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) Scientific…
Researcher Spotlight: David Kurtz, MD Stanford University Dr. Kurtz began his research in lymphoma as a medical student, gaining interest in the growing body of knowledge about lymphoma biology. However, as a resident, Dr. Kurtz was surprised to discover…
Researcher Spotlight: Reem Karmali, MD, MS Rush University Dr. Karmali is an Assistant Professor at Rush University Medical Center. Her LRF Clinical Research Mentoring Program (LCRMP) project investigates a process known as cancer cachexia, a metabolic syndrome that causes…
Researcher Spotlight: Solomon Graf, MD University of Washington Dr. Graf is a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. His project for the 2015 LRF Clinical Research Mentoring Program (LCRMP) studies the novel targeted…
Researcher Spotlight: Carla Casulo, MD Wilmot Cancer Insitute, University of Rochester Dr. Casulo became interested in hematology and lymphoma research as a young child. “My mother worked as a hematology and bone marrow technician at a New York City hospital…
Researcher Spotlight: Danielle Brander, MD Duke University Dr. Brander is a second year faculty member in the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy at Duke University. Her interests as a research clinician are improving and developing novel therapies…
Researcher Spotlight: Gita Thanarajasingam, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester Dr. Thanarajasingam’s LCRMP project proposes a new way of looking at side effects (toxicity) of lymphoma therapies. Many standard lymphoma treatment plans now include therapies that are taken continuously over long…