LUNGevity Foundation Issues 2021 Request for Applications for New Lung Cancer Translational Research Award Supporting Veterans Affairs Researchers
Applications now available online
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ LUNGevity Foundation, the nation s leading lung cancer-focused nonprofit organization, is pleased to offer a new translational research award program to support clinical scientists who work in the Department of Veterans Affairs. LUNGevity is proud to offer this funding mechanism to researchers within the VA system. The Request for Applications, to be awarded in 2021, is currently available on the LUNGevity website at LUNGevity.org/apply-for-award and the proposalCENTRAL website at proposalcentral.com.
Atlanta Hawks Launch Third Annual ‘Black History Month Assist Challenge’ To Support the Prostate Cancer Foundation
During Tuesday’s game, presented by Emory HEalthcare, the Atlanta Hawks announced the launch of the third annual Black History Month Assist Challenge. The announcement featured Hawks Vice Chairman of the Board and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Grant Hill and Bradley Carthon, MD, PhD of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and detailed the importance of bringing greater awareness to prostate cancer through a video called Uncomfortable Questions.
One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, and African American men are 76 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than a Caucasian man.
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(DENVER February 1, 2021, 10:00 a.m. EST) The first comprehensive, prospective study of smoking habits in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were enrolled in a phase III early-stage trial revealed that there was a high rate of smoking reduction and cessation following study entry, according to research published today in the
Journal of Thoracic Oncology. The
JTO is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.
Continued smoking after a lung cancer diagnosis is associated with an approximate 50% median increase in mortality , according to the 2014 Report of the Surgeon General.
Dr. Conor Steuer, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues performed prospective assessments evaluating the patterns of tobacco use and cessation and the effects on outcomes. The study was done as part of the ECOG-ACRIN 1505 trial, which sought to determine whether the addition of bevacizumab to adjuvant chem
ATLANTA – During Tuesday night’s Hawks game presented by Emory Healthcare, the Hawks announced the official launch of the third annual Black History Month Assist Challenge. The announcement, featuring Hawks Vice Chairman of the Board and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Grant Hill and Bradley Carthon, MD, PhD of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, discussed the importance of bringing greater awareness to prostate cancer through a video called
Uncomfortable Questions. One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, and African American men are 76 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than a Caucasian man.
Emory joins national Mellon Foundation research project to address racial reparations
Emory University will be part of a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, led by former Emory Provost Earl Lewis, as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative. “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions” emerges from the Center for Social Solutions’ focus on slavery and its aftermath, and is informed by three generations of humanistic scholarship and what that scholarship suggests for all seeking just futures. More information here.
The team of scholars will be led by historian Carol Anderson, Emory’s Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and department chair. The team also includes Emory College faculty members Vanessa Siddle Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, and AAS assistant