In a landmark study, Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee report that drugs used to inhibit a specific fatty acid in rat brains with glioblastoma-like tumors not only reduced new blood vessel growth and tumor size dramatically, but also prolonged survival. The study is the featured cover story of the August, 2008 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
April 2 - Ann's Hope Foundation, Inc. has pledged a $65,000 two-year grant to the Medical College of Wisconsin for research to fight melanoma.
March 9 - Evgenii Kovrigin, PhD, of Wauwatosa, has been appointed assistant professor of biochemistry at the Medical College of Wisconsin
March 28 - The MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes against Childhood Cancer, Inc.) has announced a $1 million, three-year gift to the Cancer Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin to help develop a tumor vaccine. The gift will allow the College's MACC Fund-supported investigators to expand preclinical programs on tumor vaccine development and apply their findings to childhood cancers.
March 28 - The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year $1.4 million renewal grant to the Medical College of Wisconsin. It will fund continued development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent methods to study angiogenesis¯the rapid new growth of blood vessels-- in brain tumors.
May 16 - Medical College of Wisconsin researchers at Froedtert Hospital are leading one of approximately 15 sites enrolling patients in a nationwide study to compare the effectiveness of cryoablation, a rapid freezing technique, to that of radiation therapy, the established standard of care, for relief of pain from cancer that has spread to the bone. The study is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute.
May 2 - The Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse (WBCS) has chosen its 11th annual Showhouse, a 7,400 sq. ft. Mediterranean revival mansion at 3580 N. Lake Dr., built in 1923 by Waldemar R. Helmholz and his wife, Irene. The home will be open for public tours May 31-June 15, featuring the work of many of the area’s finest interior and landscape designers. Argosy Foundation, and Northwestern Mutual Foundation are the presenting sponsors.
March 28 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate potential new pathways for targeting cancer drugs.
January 22 - Kirk Ludwig, M.D., has been appointed associate professor of surgery and associate professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff of Froedtert Hospital.