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