October & November Exhibit in the Atrium

In the Spotlight

• Shared Resources Update from Stephen Byers, PHD.

• Lombardi to Host First-Ever Regional Childhood Cancer Survivors Conference.

• Introducing The Robert B. Dickson Memorial Grant Speaker Series.
• Lombardi Fall Arts Festival brings color, music, and joy to the clinic.
• Hold the Hookah: Lombardi's Christopher Loffredo, PhD, warns against trendy tobacco use.
• Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, advocates for the same level of care for breast cancer patients regardless of their age.
• Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, was appointed a full-time member of the new NIH Study Section
  Molecular Oncogenesis.

• Lombardi and Queens University-Belfast Formalize Research Partnership.

• Junior Faculty Present Research at Lombardi's American Cancer Society Symposium.
• A paper published in Tissue and Cell by Gloria Chepko and colleagues is ranked the number 1 "hottest article" in the journal.

Amanda Graham, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who joined Lombardi’s Cancer Control Program on October 16th.

A message of welcome from Janice Oppenheim, RN, OCN, Director of Ambulatory Services.

Tracy Waller joined Lombardi on August 9th as executive assistant in the administrative office.

Amari Sokoya Pearson-Fields, MPH, joined the Lombardi community on July 31st as the executive director of the Capital Breast Care Center.

Rado Goldman, PhD, received a two year R03 grant from the NCI to study optimization of enrichment for MALDI TOF/TOF identification of cancer biomarkers.

Priscilla Furth, MD, received a $830,000 4-year R01 grant from the NCI to study the mechanisms regulating reversal of malignancy.

Mary Beth Martin, PhD, received a 2-year $427,000 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science to study arsenite and epigenetic regulation of gene expression.

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