Researcher Spotlight: Harsh Shah, DO THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAHStedman Family Scholar The future of lymphoma treatment is rapidly evolving, and investigator-initiated clinical trials are helping to pave the way toward improved treatment approaches. Dr. Shah’s LRF research is focused on…
Researcher Spotlight: Helen Ma, MDStephanie A. Gregory Distinguished Scholar THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Veterans who have been involved in combat over the last several decades have been potentially exposed to a variety of carcinogenic elements, such as…
Researcher Spotlight: David Qualls, MD MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER Immunotherapies in lymphoma aim to activate the patient’s own immune system to help target and destroy lymphoma cells. While effective, the impact of these types of therapies is often hampered…
Researcher Spotlight: Paola Ghione, MD MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER Lymphomas are a highly heterogeneous set of diseases, and while many people will do well with treatment, there are subsets of patients whose cancer does not respond or relapses quickly…
Researcher Spotlight: Dai Chihara, MD UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER Phase I trials are the first step in transitioning new drugs from the bench to the clinic. These trials are intended to evaluate the safety and tolerability of…
Researcher Spotlight: Yuxuan Liu, PhD Columbia University Medical Center Recent research has shown that genes encoding histone acetyltransferase (HAT) enzymes, EP300 and CREBBP, often become mutated in the malignant cells of follicular lymphoma (FL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).…
Researcher Spotlight: Elise A. Chong, MD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been an effective treatment for any patients with B-cell lymphomas who don’t respond to other therapies, producing remissions in 30…
Researcher Spotlight: Jianguo Tao, MD, PhD H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center With the success of ibrutinib in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and other B-cell lymphomas, researchers have become focused on the problem of treatment resistance – not only do a…
Researcher Spotlight: Sandeep Dave, MD, MS Duke University Medical Center “Even as progress has been made in a number of cancers, the options for MCL patients remain disappointingly narrow,” says Dr. Dave. He and his colleagues are seeking to expand…
Researcher Spotlight: Owen A. O’Connor, MD, PhD Columbia University Medical Center A long-time member of the Lymphoma Research Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board , and a founding Executive Committee member of LRF’s Mantle Cell Lymphoma Consortium, Dr. Owen O’Connor has been…