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October 07, 2022

Researchers are investigating ways to make immunotherapies more effective.

October 05, 2022

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers Lluis Morey, PhD, and Ramiro Verdun, PhD, have received a $1.8 million NIH R01 grant to study the epigenetic mechanisms that drive head and neck cancers.

September 29, 2022

Scott M. Welford, Ph.D., is the new Tumor Biology Research Program co-leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

September 27, 2022

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Game Changer vehicles, which bring health education and free screenings for many cancer types to South Florida communities in need, are offering prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer.

September 07, 2022

More scientific evidence about the importance of nutrition and physical activity for cancer survivors has emerged in the past 10 years, prompting the American Cancer Society to update its guidance for physicians and patients.

September 01, 2022

New treatments, particularly immunotherapies, are providing durable benefits for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

August 26, 2022

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has named Sophia George, PhD, the inaugural associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

August 19, 2022

Jashodeep Datta, MD, associate member of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, led a study recently published in the journal Oncogene that helps to explain pancreatic cancer’s notorious virulence and resistance to therapy.

August 18, 2022

Drs Goldberg and Sussman discuss key findings from their research on rates of gastrointestinal mortality, the factors that could contribute to these differences, and ways these disparities can be addressed.

August 16, 2022

Ashish Shah, MD, has assumed the newly created position of director of clinical trials and translational research and principal investigator in the Section of Virology and Immunotherapy at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Brain Tumor Initiative at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

August 05, 2022

What began as a small community effort seven decades ago has resulted in a new series of grants to accelerate groundbreaking research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

July 28, 2022

Cancer experts at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: Annual Oncology Update shared important progress across a wide range of cancers — prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and more — that was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2022 Annual Meeting, the largest gathering of cancer clinicians and scientists in the United States.

June 27, 2022

A team of researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has identified a new cellular oxygen-sensing pathway – a discovery that could potentially lead to new approaches for treating cancer and other diseases.

June 23, 2022

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is making another bold move to accelerate cancer research, celebrating the groundbreaking for a 244,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Transformational Cancer Research Building.

June 17, 2022

Research underscores the need to subdivide Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups to fully understand actual disparities.

May 23, 2022

Dr Taylor discusses the significance of BTK inhibition in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, describes the key objectives of, and methods used, for the genomic analyses performed by his team, underscores the clinical significance of the data yielded from this research, and outlines where future efforts will focus.

May 23, 2022

A new study by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has found that Black women with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to have tumors with treatable genetic variations than white and Asian women.

May 17, 2022

New research illuminates the mechanisms that make B-cell lymphomas resistant to important immunotherapy

May 05, 2022

The Pillai lab will explore off-the-shelf, innate natural killer T cell immunotherapies that can be targeted against challenging tumors.

April 29, 2022

Renowned robotic urologic oncology surgeon Dipen J. Parekh, MD, was the first in the nation to test a new preoperative surgical rehearsal technology recently approved by the FDA for all genitourinary conditions.