News & Announcements

Abstracts accepted to AACR Meeting

Congratulations for the 2 abstracts that were accepted presentations at the American Association for Cancer Research Meeting in April 2021 New Orleans, LA.

Liu J, Hu PT, Raj-Kumar P, Praveen-Kumar A, Lin X, Shriver CD and Hu H.  Association of cancer treatment response, recurrence and underlying molecular reasons for over 22 TCGA tumor types. American Association …

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14 MHSRS 2022 Abstracts Accepted

Congratulations to the 14 abstracts that were accepted presentations at the 2022 Military Health System Research Symposium.

Darmon S, Lovejoy L, Shriver CD, Zhu K and Ellworth RE.  Non-disparate survival of Non-Hispanic Black women with breast cancer despite less favorable pathology: effect of access to and provision of care within a military healthcare system. Military Health …

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2020 AACR Team Science Awards

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to Recognize The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Founding Members and Current Project Team

Tom Kurtz, President and CEO of Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine at Windber (CSSIMMW) is delighted to announce that Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Hai Hu is among those who were recognized with the 2020 American …

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9 MHSRS 2020 Abstracts Accepted

Congratulations to the 9 abstracts that were accepted for a virtual poster presentation at the 2020 Military Health System Research Symposium. 

MHSRS

Praveen-Kumar Raj-Kumar, Lori A. Sturtz, Albert J. Kovatich, Brenda Deyarmin, Jeffrey A. Hooke, Leigh Fantacone-Campbell, Anupama Praveen-Kumar, Jianfang Liu, James Craig , Leonid Kvecher, Jennifer Kane, Jennifer Melley, Stella Somiari, Stephen C. Benz, Justin …

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Windber Institute launches COVID-19 Antibody Research Project

Article by: Randy Griffith
Photo by: Thomas Slusser
Reprinted with permission from The Tribune-Democrat

Scientists at Windber’s renowned research institute are gaining inspiration from the organization’s earliest days to address today’s COVID-19 pandemic while looking to the future. Researchers at Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine are working with Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber’s new …

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Two abstracts accepted for a poster presentation at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Congratulations to the two abstracts that were accepted for a poster presentation at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium®, December 10-14, 2019:

Dr. Praveen-Kumar Raj-Kumar

“Evaluation of laser microdissected primary breast tumors for RNA Seq over bulk processing and validated with cohort control”

Mr. Jianfang Liu

“Breast cancer treatment and association with clinicopathologic features in TCGA”

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