Category: Cancer Center Blog

UAB was well represented at one of the signature oncology conferences this year, ASCO, held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 31–June 4.

Markus Bredel, M.D., Ph.D., is lead author on “Haploinsufficiency of NFKBIA reshapes the epigenome antipodal to the IDH mutation and imparts disease fate in diffuse gliomas” in Cell Reports Medicine (2023). This groundbreaking discovery not only marks a significant milestone in our understanding of diffuse gliomas but also paves the way for improved predictions of disease outcomes and the development of targeted treatment approaches.

In 2022, the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB celebrated its 50th anniversary, highlighting five decades of cancer research and care for patients in Alabama. During the State of the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center address, Director Barry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., emphasized the Cancer Center's continuous growth and the people and initiatives shaping the future of cancer research and care. To learn more, read our 2022 Year in Review.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement recently hosted a windshield tour of several rural underserved communities in the Alabama Black Belt as part of an 18-month program called A Family Affair, which supports rural African American breast cancer survivors and their female family members.

Francine Walton is a program director in the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach & Engagement. In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked Walton to share how her mother has shaped her perspective on the cancer journey, including the importance of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is pleased to announce the 2023 class of NextGen Scholars, including two predoctoral awardees and one postdoctoral awardee. The O’Neal NextGen Scholars Awards support the training of future scientific leaders in cancer research.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is pleased to announce that Timiya S. Nolan, Ph.D., APRN-CNP, ANP-BC, has been named Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement effective July 1, 2023. In this role, she will be responsible for overseeing the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement, which fosters transdisciplinary cancer research along with bi-directional communication and collaboration with communities statewide.

O’Neal Cancer Service Line Strategic Initiatives Manager Dorothea Staursky recently testified in front of Congress to support federal funding for the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program.

Rebecca Arend, M.D., will join Drs. Narendra Wajapeyee and Suzanne Lapi as Co-Leader of the O’Neal Experimental Therapeutics Research Program.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB will host the State of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center on Friday, May 12, at 3 p.m. in the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium. Director Barry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., will review the Cancer Center’s growth and highlight accomplishments from the last year.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB would like to welcome Zaid Al-Kadhimi, M.D., the new director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Division of Hematology & Oncology.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB launched a new website that creates a virtual front door to UAB Medicine’s world-class cancer care, research, and patient support services.

The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center's Cancer Training & Career Development Office is proud to partner with Birmingham City Schools and Birmingham Promise to support young researchers like Kamari Marzette, who is featured in a recent commercial filmed in Wallace Tumor Institute.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB will host the inaugural Edward E. Partridge, M.D., Lecture on Wednesday, April 5, at noon in Wallace Tumor Institute, Room 101. Phillip E. Castle, Ph.D., MPH, director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute, will present “Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Cancer: At the Crossroads for Global Health Equity.”

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB recently awarded six projects a total of $530,000 in research grants through O'Neal Invests. The O’Neal Invests program funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related projects to do key, preliminary work in order to enable competitive R01 applications.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama recently awarded eight researchers at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB a total of $800,000 in breast cancer research funding.

O'Neal Cancer Center Scientist Mehmet Akce, M.D., has been named the leader of the O’Neal Precision Medicine Working Group and Associate Director for Precision Oncology of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama recently awarded $320,000 in funding to two researchers at the O'Neal Cancer Center.

Published: January 19th, 2022 The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Bassel El-Rayes, M.D., will become […]