A two-day event celebrating the career of Robert Lefkowitz will include scientific presentations from seven Nobel Laureates as well as other eminent scientists.

Mary Jo Turk, PhD, co-director of the Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Program, Norris-Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, presents “Identifying precursors of resident memory T cells in cancer.”

DCI has announced the launch of a new Cancer Health Disparities & Equity lecture series. The series is a collaboration between DCI’s Disparities SPORE and DCI’s Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity Program.

Betty Tong, MD, BME, MSME, MD, MHS, is a recipient of the inaugural “Extraordinary Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery Award” established by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Women in Thoracic Surgery.

For the first time since 2019, the DCI Scientific Retreat was held in person with a full program followed by a poster session and mingling — attracted around 90 faculty, staff, and trainees.

Cancer epidemiologist Electra D. Paskett, PhD, associate director of Population Sciences and Community Outreach at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of The Ohio State University, is the featured speaker.

The Radiation Research Society has bestowed its highest honor — the Failla Memorial Lecture Award — on Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, executive director of Duke Cancer Institute and William and Jane Shingleton Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.

"Cardio-Oncology in the Era of Precision Medicine" will cover cardiovascular toxicities of targeted therapies and androgen deprivation therapies, risk stratification, and prototypical cases. It's geared toward researchers and providers.

Gloria Johnson Bass, MA, received the 2022 Susan B. Clark Administrative Leadership Award who's been "part of the Duke Health family for 41 years, and has grown her career here at Duke taking on roles with increasing responsibility."

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, endowed professor of Cancer Immunology and director of the Precision Immunology Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presents “Defining the Actionable Genome.”

OncLive, in collaboration with DCI will host a State of the Science Summit featuring a panel of experts from the DCI Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers in Durham.

The DCI 8th Annual Scientific Retreat attracted a broad array of faculty, trainees (students, residents, fellows, postdocs, etc.) and staff. For a second year, the retreat was entirely virtual.

Duke University School of Medicine has partnered with Duke’s Office of Research & Innovation to host Duke University Research Week 2022. Virtual events begin on Monday, January 31, 2022, and run through Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.

Johanna Joyce, PhD, a professor in the Department of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) presents “Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Micro-environment.”

Executive Director of DCI, Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, invites Duke faculty, trainees, and staff to the 8th Annual DCI Scientific Retreat, to be held via Zoom.

The grants, made possible by the Susan G. Komen Metastatic Breast Cancer Collaborative Research Initiative, have been awarded to teams comprised of patient advocates and DCI and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators.

Epidemiologist Melinda Irwin, PhD, MPH, co-leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, Yale Cancer Center, presents “Is it time to implement weight management, exercise and diet interventions as standard of care in the oncology clinic?”

OncLive, in collaboration with the DCI Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapy Disease Group, will host "Institutional Perspectives in Cancer: Leukemia/Lymphoma" under the chairmanship of Harry Erba, MD, PhD.