Academic Highlights
Exciting new paper in Cancer Discovery on how aged and BRCA-mutated stromal cells drive tumor growth. A fantastic collaboration including contributions from DOD OCA ECI Rinda Soong! > read here.
Advancing Oncology Care Through Gilead's Research Scholars Program
Including recent DOD OCA Alum Katherine Chiappinelli’s Lab!
Congratulations to DOD OCA ECI Alum Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, on acquiring tenure at Cornell.
Rivkin symposium, September 20, 2024.
DOD OCA, Annual Retreat September 17, 2024
Powell-Drescher Auction Gala, September 19, 2024
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August 12, 2024 · Congratulations to alumni Rebecca Arend on her promotion to Associate Director for Clinical Trials. Click here.
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August, 2024 · Congratulations to ECI Priyanka Verma for her paper acceptance in Nature Communications!
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April, 2024 · Congratulations to ECIs and Alumni: Kate Chiappinelli, Salvatore Condello, Jogender Tushir-Singh, and Achuth Padmanabhan on receiving grants from OCAGC. Change OCAGC to say: Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Greater Cincinatti (OCAGC)
SGO March, 2024
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February 1, 2024 · Congratulations to Rebecca Arend on being one of the keynote panelists for the national Friends of Cancer Research Public Meeting forum, held on February 1, 2024! Click here.
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January 30, 2024 · Congratulations to ECI Priyanka Verma for winning the 2023 Schreiber Research Prize for Outstanding Mentored Investigators OCRA Awards Two Prizes Recognizing Exceptional Researchers (ocrahope.org)
December 2023
Congratulations to Marion Curtis for the successful recommendation of funding for her clinical trial proposal on MUC1 T cells in ovarian cancer from the Department of Defense!
November 12, 2023
Congratulations to DoD OCA Recent Alumni Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD on his interview with NYPost on his work:
Newly found ‘kill switch’ triggers death of cancer cells in potential breakthrough (nypost.com)
November, 2023
ECIs: Dr. Gaspar-Maia, Dr. Verma, Dr. Padmanabhan and Deputy Dean Dr. Drapkin and Dean Dr. Nephew meet at the OCMF conference.
ECI, Dr. Padmanabhan presents at OCMF.
ECI, Dr. Padmanabhan’s talk at OCMF on the Role of ZNF217 in Ovarian Cancer Metastasis.
Deputy Dean Drapkin at OCMF.
ECI, Dr. Verma presents at OCMF.
May 2023
Congratulations to DoD OCA Early Career Investigator Melissa A. Merritt, PhD on her Leadership position in the NCI Cohort Consortium this year!
Oct 3-4, 2023
Annual DoD OCA 2023 Retreat- Urban Axes
Dean and Deputy Dean presenting Dr. Hammond with a Keynote Speaker plaque
Academy together with trainees, mentors, patient advocates, and academy leadership
Academy members at Fenway Park
Oct 6, 2023
ECI, Dr. Oladapu, presenting at AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research in Boston.
Deputy Dean, Dr. Ronny Drapkin, presenting at AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research in Boston.
May 9, 2023. Kate Chiappinelli and Dan Powell at the 11th Annual Basser Center Scientific Symposium
April 16, 2023. Dinner at AACR 2023. (L to R: Dr. Nephew, Dr.Chiappinelli, Dr.Condello, Dr. Terry , Dr. Sasamoto, Dr. Vogel, Dr. Matei).
April 28, 2023. ECIs, alum, and co-dean Ronny Drapkin at the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Annual Breast and Gynecologic Cancers Symposium.
Drs. Pepin and Sasamoto.
L to R (Drs. Pepin, Yeku, Drapkin, and Sasamoto).
OCA Alum-invited speakers at this year's SGO Meeting in Tampa FL.
January 2022
Congratulations to the DoD OCA Early Career Investigator Marion Curtis, PhD who was awarded funding from the OCRP 2022 Pilot award and for a promotion to Senior Associate Consultant II!
January 2022
Congratulations to DoD OCA alum Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD, on being one of NRG’s plenary speakers this year!
January 2019 · Congratulations to DOD OCA Early Career Investigator Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD who was awarded the Liz Tilberis Early Career Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance.
July 2019 · Congratulations to DOD OCA Early Career Investigator Alumnus Rugang Zhang, PhD who was awarded the Collaborative Research Development Grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance.