Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence
Our Mission
The mission of the Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence (PC-COE) is to provide superior clinical care and conduct multidisciplinary research on prostate cancer to improve outcomes in both quantity and quality of life for men affected by prostate cancer and in doing so, benefit both prostate cancer patients and their families.
Our Goals
The Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence:
1. Increases outstanding collaborative multi-disciplinary research.
2. Promotes excellence in providing superior clinical care for patients.
3. Increases the number of clinical trials offered to patients.
4. Creates a distinct training program for the next generation of scientists.
5. Strengthens fundraising for prostate cancer research.
6. Promotes community outreach & research to decrease racial disparities.
7. Increases name recognition of the care and research at MCW.
Meet Our Team
Center News
Center Leadership
Center Accomplishments at the 2019 Scientific Retreat
PC-COE members and trainees played a significant role at the 2019 MCW Cancer Center Scientific Retreat, giving scientific talks, siting on panels, presenting and judging posters, mentoring and collaborating. PC-COE member Dr. Kirsten Beyer was presented with the Directors' Award for Highly Promising Peer Reviewed Research - a grant given to those who received near-fundable scores on a recent R01 submission. Congratulations to everyone who attended, presented and participated.
Other Member and Trainee Accomplishments
Kenneth Iczkowski, MD, Professor of Pathology and Urology, has been elected president-elect of the International Society of Urological Pathology for a two-year term. The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) is an international program that issues guidelines for the practice of uropathology and offers educational opportunities for pathologists worldwide. The ISUP has more than 1,400 members from 81 countries in 6 continents. The ISUP is sponsoring the 2019 Prostate Cancer Grading Conference in France, for which Dr. Iczkowski is co-chairing. This year's conference will likely address and resolve several outstanding issues related to prostate cancer grading and ongoing changes in the diagnostic pathway of prostate cancer.
John Bukowy, postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Peter LaViolette’s lab, gave a presentation in early April on “Accurate Segmentation of Prostate Cancer Histomorphometric Features Using a Weakly Supervised Convolutional Neural Network,” at the 2019 Experimental Biology Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Marja Nevalainen, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, served as an ad-hoc member for the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants Committee in June in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Nevalainen is also served as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Idea Development Award Pre-application this past June-July 2019.
Back in February, Dr. Nevalainen served as a member of the Second Tier Reviewer Panel for the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Programmatic Review. She also served as session chair at the March 2019 European Association of Urology Conference in Barcelona, Spain.