Grant to Help Expand Patient Access to Cutting Edge Technology
Prism Clinical Imaging, Inc., in collaboration with investigators at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, has received a $1.6 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and clinically validate advanced medical imaging software that aids the diagnosis and treatment of patients with brain cancer.
A $1.1 million dollar gift from the Daniel and Laura Gruber Charitable Lead Trust #3 will boost the study of esophageal cancer at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee by establishing the James J. Gralton Laboratory and the James J. Gralton Endowed Research Fund. This gift is a tribute to the late James J. Gralton, father of Laura Gralton and son-in-law of Daniel & Laura Gruber, who passed away from esophageal cancer at the age of 50 in October of 1998. The late Mr. Gralton had retired as president of Milwaukee Seasoning Laboratories and later founded Hovercraft America. Ms. Gralton shared that she “hopes that these funds will help research and identify the triggers and early symptoms of this nasty disease”.
Sept 29 - The Medical College of Wisconsin received a five-year, $1.5 million competitive grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to research a new treatment for the childhood cancer neuroblastoma.
Sept 18 - The Medical College of Wisconsin received a two-year, $367,840 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to research ways to block the spread of glioblastoma multiforme, a highly malignant form of brain cancer.
July 17 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to research a proposed therapy with the potential to improve the quality of life for pediatric brain cancer survivors. The grant was awarded to Fritz Sieber, Ph.D., professor of pediatric hematology and oncology, who conducts research in the Medical College’s MACC Fund Research Center and at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center. Dr. Sieber also conducts research through Children’s Research Institute.
June 11 - The fourth annual Bobbie Nick Voss Charitable Funds Golf Classic is scheduled for Monday, June 22, at North Hills Country Club. Event proceeds support colon cancer research at The Medical College of Wisconsin and local colon cancer education and care initiatives.
June 3 - A national Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study led by a Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center physician at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee has found that a course of radiation therapy to the brain after treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer reduced the risk of metastases to the brain within the first year after treatment. The study was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, June 1.
May 6 - The 2009 Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse for a Cure is located in Milwaukee’s Prospect Hill subdivision at 3005 E. Kenwood Blvd. The Georgian Revival house will be open to the public Saturday, June 6 through Sunday, June 21.
April 22 - Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center researchers in Milwaukee have learned that a protein, CXCL12, that normally controls intestinal cell movement, has the potential to halt colorectal cancer spreading. These studies represent a potential mechanism by which CXL12 may slow cancer spreading. Controlling this process could lead to new biological therapies for colorectal cancers.
The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center and the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse have announced funding of three new research grants for 2009-2010. With the help of more than 1,000 volunteers in its 11th year, the 2008 Showhouse and its related events raised $400,000 for breast and prostate cancer research at the Medical College.
In older breast cancer survivors, the number of lymph nodes removed during surgery and the presence of cancer in the lymph nodes were the two factors most directly linked to the development of lymphedema, swelling of the arm and hand, according to a study from the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Amanda L. Kong, MD, has been appointed assistant professor of surgery at The Medical College of Wisconsin, and to the medical staff of Froedtert Hospital, a major teaching affiliate.
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center in Milwaukee may have found a mechanism that could preserve the leukemia-killing effects of a transplant graft, while limiting the damage donor immune cells might do to the recipient host’s vital organs.
Elizabeth M. Gore, MD has been elected chair of the Full Member Principal Investigators Committee for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG). Dr. Gore is the RTOG principal investigator for The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where she is an associate professor of Radiation Oncology. RTOG is a National Cancer Institute-funded national clinical trials group and is administered by the American College of Radiology.
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center in Milwaukee may have found a mechanism that could preserve the leukemia-killing effects of a transplant graft, while limiting the damage donor immune cells might do to the recipient host’s vital organs.