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…
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: Carla Casulo, MD Wilmot Cancer Institute, 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…
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: Goldi Kozloski, PhD Sylvester Cancer Center Dr. Kozloski is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami and a recipient of a 2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant from the Lymphoma Research Foundation…
Researcher Spotlight: Jianguo Tao, MD, PhD H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute Though available therapies for lymphoma are becoming increasingly effective at slowing disease progression and prompting remissions, many patients eventually develop drug resistance that allows their disease…