Past Director's Messages

Use the links below to read past messages from the director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

2009

10/20/09

Welcome daVinci robot. New Komen Grant for Richer. Jake's Amazing Journey.

10/13/09

Grand Opportunities ARRA grant for Bunn. Porter gets $1.4M faculty recruitment ARRA grant. Messersmith's 2009 Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award. IOM membership for Marrack and Kappler. Benefit for Weekes 10/24.

09/29/09

UCCC members receive 44% of ARRA grants in Colorado.

09/22/09

First listing of UCCC members receiving ARRA grants. New members Pitts, Lu, Taraseviciene-Stewart.

09/15/09

Deep cuts to tobacco-tax funded cancer programs.

09/09/09

NCCCP grant awarded. Koch paper on a better doxorubicin. Breast cancer SPORE pilot grant awardees. Ames joins UCCC as Informatics Core Manager. Colorado Cancer Day promo.

09/01/09

Messersmith's NCI -ASCO Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award. Proof of Concept Grant Winners Ahn, Bayer, Duncan, Elias, Ford, Zhao, Duval. New Research Administration organization and staff.

08/25/09

UCH's American College of Surgeons reaccreditation for cancer. Race for Research. Prostate Cancer Awareness Week.

08/18/09

UCCC reapproved as SWOG site. Director search update. Refaeli, Roop stem-cell paper in Nature. Parolini is new fundraising AVP. Infinite Monkey Theorem Wine donates $1 per bottle to UCCC. New member Biller.

08/11/09

Student Cancer Research Fellows poster session. Jimeno's new grant.

08/04/09

Aging & Cancer Symposium announcement. Keith's iloprost research shows promise for lung cancer chemoprevention in former smokers.

07/28/09

AD for Finance and Administration Berrier leaving UCCC, Montour named Interim AD. Bunn, Korch & Franklin approved for SIRC funding of mass spectrometer. New members Jedlicka, Pierce & Ryan.

07/21/09

Avon Foundation's $650k grant to Horwitz

07/14/09

Colorado Colorectal Screening Program expands. Levy wins St. Baldrick's Fellowship.

07/07/09

Changes to UCCC programs and cores. New scheduling system, cell sorting guidelines in Flow Cytometry Core. Kim promoted to full member.

06/30/09

New radiation oncology TomoTherapy services.

06/23/09

ALK inibitor for lung cancer, ARRA grant list grows

06/02/09

Ahn's WM Keck Foundation grant.

05/27/09

New members Barnett, Graner, Grayck, Toon; Heads Up to Head and Neck Cancer golf tourney

05/19/09

Gift of Life & Breath run, grant submissions update, Loetze bio

05/12/09

Melanoma workshop report

05/5/09

ARRA funding, Gleevec and GIST (McCarter clinical trial), PLCO data for investigators

04/28/09

$35 million cut from Amendment 35 monies, 2009 Student Cancer Research Fellowship, profile of Dr. Scott Oliver.

04/21/09

AACR Welcome Reception photos, NCI's big announcement about stimulus funding, Yin's award and Finlayson's UPI appointment

04/14/09

Amendment 35 funding update, big slate of on-campus talks.

04/07/09

Amendment 35 funding at risk, awards for Spillmand and Tyler, and the AACR welcome reception.

03/31/09

03/24/09

PLCO trial results publishes last week, new Calabresi Scholars Leong and Macy

03/17/09

AMC goes tobacco-free April 6; ESAB visit recap; Lawrence, director candidate,visiting on April 22.

03/10/09

External Scientific Advisory Board visit, Pres. Obama and stem cell research, members' paper in Nature and more.

03/03/09

Forum on stimulus funding for research; Safeway gift of $425k for breast cancer research; Avon Expo; 30% of cancer is preventable; more.

02/24/2009

On the loss of core director Katheryn Resing; Hunger's TARGET paper; update on The Children's Hospital oncology/hematology/bmt program; stimulus bill final tally; Agarwal and Sclafani's research on inositol and prostate cancer; town hall meeting April 19.

02/18/2009

Breast cancer SPORE planning; new member Jac Nickoloff

02/10/2009

Growth of clinical lung program; 2008 UCCC statistics and accomplishments.

02/02/2009

Federal stimulus package; Linger's Joan's Legacy award; UCCC members' planning grant for NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Program; members honored at UCH medical staff dinner.

01/27/2009

Melanoma SPORE external advisors meeting; awards for members Klymkowsky and Cohen, UCCC Seed Grant awardees, round 1 2009

01/20/2009

Byers' first message as interim director; Obama's cancer plan

01/13/2009

Bunn's farewell message

2008

11/25/2008

Borges AACR/Breast Cancer Foundation grant; Colorado Cancer Coalition's Quality of Life Task Force; AD for Cancer Prevention and Control Position posted

11/18/08

Ford and Zhao's DOD Breast Cancer Synergistic Award; Gorham's Bronze Leaf.

11/11/08

Bunn inducted into Colorado Thoracic Society Hall of Fame; Carbone visit Dec. 8; caBIG conference; Ridgway award; Schiemann's DOD Idea Award

11/04/08

Moyed Miften joins Radiation Oncology; Jennifer Richer's DOD Idea Award; Rachel Linger's award

10/28/08

SELECT Trial; Janet Rossant on campus; new members Ehringer, Jimeno, Malkoski, Maroni, Reynolds, Wang

10/21/08

VanDyk's PLoS Pathogens paper on virus assembly in Kaposi's sarcoma; Introducing Dr. Chip Dodd; Search for new UCCC PRMC Chair; Disclose financial interests

10/14/08

Behbakht, Ford and Thorburn's new R01 on TRAIL signaling; Malkinson's new R01 on macrophages; Malkoski's new K08 on TGF-beta in lung squamous carcinoma; Park's Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Senior Fellows; Jackson's first R01; Hu's R01 on Transcriptional Activity of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 2; Galperin's NIH Pathway to Independence (K99) Award; Fujita's R03 on developing a protocol for profiling blood markers of melanoma

10/07/08

Anderson et al's $599,999 Komen grant; ACS/IRG/Seed Grant deadline is Dec. 1; Graham's ACS Research Scholar Award;  Colorado Cancer Coalition annual meeting

09/30/08

Keating's St. Baldrick's Scholar Award; 5280's Top Docs; Valverde's new HPV education grant; Camidge's new R21; name change for Thoracic Malignancies program; $10,000 gift from Rocky Mountain Italian Golf Association

09/23/08

Stephen Raab on a better clinical pathology service; Animal Imaging core; Jean Kutner's paper on massage and cancer patients; Colorado Cancer Day rap up

09/16/08

Aptium Oncology GI Cancer Consortium; welcome Xiao-Jing Wang, MD, PhD; Cancer League seeks board members; Cycling to Cure Cancer

09/09/08

Stand Up to Cancer results; World Cancer Conference Declaration; Presidential candidates' plans to battle cancer;

09/02/08

Stand Up to Cancer preview; The HMO Cancer Research Network report; Weekes earns NCI Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research; Colorado Cancer Day preview

08/26/08

AMC Cancer Research Center needs your help; Informatics Core launches third clinical trials module

08/19/08

Promotions for members Balasubramaniam, Bowman, Weekes, Bemis and Davis; new members Doebele, Hu, Meyer, Raab, Pillai, Schwartz, Waziri, Zhang; CSU Cancer Supercluster Retreat; Lung SPORE funding renewed; Papworth is new Development Associate;

08/12/08

Carbone bio; Student Cancer Research Fellowship Poster Session; Stand Up to Cancer

08/05/08

Student Cancer Research Fellowship Poster Session; Project LEAD visit; Cancer and Aging Grant recipients

7/29/08

Tyler et al in Cell; preview of Project Lead visit

7/22/08

Stand Up to Cancer; new members Patel, Lomax, Matthews and Winn; Colorado Cancer Coalition meeting

7/15/08

Hirsch, Bunn, Garcia and Franklin have lung cancer breakthrough with EGFR-FISH; ACS IGR grantees

07/08/08

TACTIC Clinic launches; Pearlman award

07/01/08

Thorburn appointed to BCRP Integration Panel; Horwitz receives $1 million from AVON Foundation; CU/CSU Cancer Collaboration; Byers talks to CURE

06/24/08

Being poor increases cancer risk, death; CU/CSU Collaboration celebrates 20 years; Eckhart wins $890,000 Littlefield Award

06/17/08

New member Steve Leong; Goodrich and Kugel DOD Idea Award

06/10/08

Varella-Garcia publication in Nature; meet the Student Cancer Research Fellowship fellows; SCORE study for prostate cancer

06/03/08

ASCO wrap up; CTSA grant; new members Jones and Tse

05/27/08

Sclafani and Agarwal on Resveratrol in head and neck cancer; Bunn Tribute Event sponsors

05/20/08

Bunn Tribute Event recap; Glode new AD for Outreach, Gregory new patient coordinator; Durango symposium on women's cancer and survivorship

05/13/08

Elias et al on tamoxifen + aromatase inhibitors; Nordeen's paper about a new estrogen antagonist; LIVESTRONG Day;

05/06/08

UCCC leads clinical trial of ENMD-2076 for advanced cancer; Colorado Bioscience Association talks;

04/28/08

04/22/08

04/15/08

04/08/08

04/01/08

03/25/08

03/18/08