Schwarz named Danforth WashU Physician-Scientist Scholar (Links to an external site)
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Schwarz to co-lead new center, backed by a five-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Links to an external site)
Naoshad Muhammad’s research published in Cancer Research (Links to an external site)
“Mono- and diunsaturated fatty acids sensitize cervical cancer to radiation therapy”
Schwarz announced as RRS Vice-President-Elect (Links to an external site)
Julie Schwarz, MD, PhD, was elected Vice President of the Radiation Research Society and will subsequently become President next year.
Stanley receives RSNA grant
Jennifer Stanley, MD, PhD, Holman Pathway resident, has been awarded a Research Resident/Fellow Grant from Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
She will receive $30,000 to continue her work “Exploiting Radiation Induced Anti-tumor Immunity in Advanced-stage and Metastatic Ovarian Cancer”.
Fiona Ruiz receives her PhD
Dr. Fiona Ruiz successfully defended her thesis on Thursday, November 14, 2019.
Schwarz Lab well-represented as presenters at RRS 2019
The Cancer Biology Division had an impressive number of presenters and attendees.
John Floberg, MD, PhD and Julie Schwarz, MD PhD Published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (Links to an external site)
“Altering cellular reducing potential changes 64Cu-ATSM signal with or without hypoxia.”
Schwarz receives 2019 AACR Investigator Grant
Cancer Biology Division Director & Associate Professor Dr. Julie Schwarz accepted a 2019 AACR Investigator Grant award to continue her work “Targeting CXCR2 to Improve Radiation Induced Anti-Tumor Immunity”
Collaboration with the DeNardo Lab makes WUSM News
Immune-boosting compound makes immunotherapy effective against pancreatic cancer Panni RZ, Herndon JM, Zuo C, Hegde S, Hogg GD, Knolhoff BL, Breden MA, Li X, Krisnawan VE, Khan SQ, Schwarz JK, Rogers BE, Fields RC, Hawkins WG, Gupta V, DeNardo DG. Agonism of CD11b reprograms innate immunity to sensitize pancreatic cancer to immunotherapies. Science Translational Medicine. […]
Cutting off cervical cancer’s fuel supply stymies tumors–paper published in Cancer Research (Links to an external site)
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Recent publication in Oncotarget
Members of the Schwarz lab were co-authors of an article evaluating the effect of obesity and obesity-associated factors on the outcomes of patients with cervical cancer that was recently published in Oncotarget. Read full article »
ASTRONews Research Spotlight: John Floberg, MD, PhD (Links to an external site)
Using imaging markers to guide therapeutic options for cancer patients
Schwarz Lab at AACR 2017
Fiona Ruiz recently presented her work discussing pre-treatment cervical tumors at the 2017 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference in Washington, DC.