On Tuesday, Oct. 17, DCI's Valarie Worthy, MSN, RN, and Steven Patierno, PhD, will participate in the first of a series of in-person meetings of the President’s Cancer Panel in New Orleans.

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.”

As the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology was wrapping up this week, Chief Patient Experience and Safety Officer at Duke Cancer Institute Thomas LeBlanc, MD, MA, MHS, FAAHPM, FASCO, was already in planning mode.

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.

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.

DCI oncologists are blazing the trail on the national stage with their inroads in breast and gynecologic cancer research, treatment, and advocacy.

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.

Steve Patierno, PhD, was a co-developer of the AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2022 and participated in a congressional briefing. Nadine Barrett, PhD, co-wrote an ASCO-ACCC statement on increasing racial & ethnic diversity in clinical trials.

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.

Just ahead of Colon Cancer Awareness Month The Connection Place, Inc. and the North Carolina Female Pastors Fellowship Group is spearheading an event on preventing stomach and colon cancers.

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.

Next year Duke Cancer Institute will mark 50 years of leadership, compassionate cancer care and groundbreaking cancer research. Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, who came to Duke a decade ago to lead Duke Cancer Institute as executive director, says the…

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.