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…
Researcher Spotlight: Selina Chen-Kiang, PhD Weill Cornell Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)- supported research may have identified both the molecular mechanism that causes some mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients to be resistant to ibrutinib (Imbruvica), and ways to overcome that resistance.…
Researcher Spotlight: Elias Campo, MD, PhD Hospital Clinic of the University of Barcelona in Spain Dr. Campo is Research Director and Professor of Anatomic Pathology at the Hospital Clinic of the University of Barcelona in Spain. He and his colleagues…
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…
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 treatments,”…