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Helicobacter pylori infection is a major cause of gastric cancer, and researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have several projects underway to better understand the association and develop much-needed prevention and treatment.

Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that a protein complex that governs gene expression sometimes gets rewired during breast cancer to help estrogen receptor positive tumors resist endocrine therapies and become more aggressive.

State of Science Summit- Lukemia/Lymphoma: Chaired by Mikkael A Sekeres, MD

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS, discussed the changes to the classifications of MDS, the evolution of targeted therapies for patients with acute myeloid leukemia, and approaches for patients with bone marrow failure syndromes.

Antonio Iavarone, MD, has made a decades-long commitment to finding better treatments for glioblastoma and other aggressive brain tumors. As the new deputy director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, he will have opportunities to do even more.

The Florida Department of Health has awarded Nagaraj Nagathihalli, PhD, an associate professor at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, a $583,200 grant to study tobacco risk, tumor progression, and therapeutic options for pancreatic cancer.

Sophia George, PhD, is hoping to find new strategies for early detection of ovarian cancer, a disease that is particularly deadly for African American, Caribbean, and Jewish women.

Researchers are investigating ways to make immunotherapies more effective.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers Lluis Morey, PhD, and Ramiro Verdun, PhD, have received a $1.8 million NIH R01 grant to study the epigenetic mechanisms that drive head and neck cancers.

Scott M. Welford, Ph.D., is the new Tumor Biology Research Program co-leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Game Changer vehicles, which bring health education and free screenings for many cancer types to South Florida communities in need, are offering prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer.

More scientific evidence about the importance of nutrition and physical activity for cancer survivors has emerged in the past 10 years, prompting the American Cancer Society to update its guidance for physicians and patients.

New treatments, particularly immunotherapies, are providing durable benefits for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has named Sophia George, PhD, the inaugural associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Jashodeep Datta, MD, associate member of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, led a study recently published in the journal Oncogene that helps to explain pancreatic cancer’s notorious virulence and resistance to therapy.

Drs Goldberg and Sussman discuss key findings from their research on rates of gastrointestinal mortality, the factors that could contribute to these differences, and ways these disparities can be addressed.

Ashish Shah, MD, has assumed the newly created position of director of clinical trials and translational research and principal investigator in the Section of Virology and Immunotherapy at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Brain Tumor Initiative at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

What began as a small community effort seven decades ago has resulted in a new series of grants to accelerate groundbreaking research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

Cancer experts at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: Annual Oncology Update shared important progress across a wide range of cancers — prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and more — that was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2022 Annual Meeting, the largest gathering of cancer clinicians and scientists in the United States.

A team of researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has identified a new cellular oxygen-sensing pathway – a discovery that could potentially lead to new approaches for treating cancer and other diseases.