The Cancer Patient Education Network has recognized Donna Branson with the organization’s Distinguished Service Award. Branson is director of Patient and Public Education at Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Twenty years ago, on September 13, 1999, the G. Mitchell Morris Cancer Learning Center at Huntsman Cancer Institute opened. Since then, the Cancer Learning Center has answered nearly a quarter-million...
YWCA Utah presented Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, with an Outstanding Achievement Award in ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ and Medicine. Kepka is a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator, assistant professor at the ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ of Utah...
Every year the ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ of Utah provides an opportunity for faculty and staff to nominate their co-workers for District Staff Excellence Awards and ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ Staff Excellence Awards. The awards recognize...
This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the Hispanic Patient Navigator program at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Patient navigators serve as a bridge between patients and their care teams. Navigators make...
Dr. Wu is a pediatric and clinical ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ psychologist, assistant professor of dermatology, and a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Dr. Wu...
Dr. Hunt completed head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction training at Vanderbilt ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ after otolaryngology training at Louisiana State ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ, New Orleans. He has been at the ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ of...
Brad Cairns, PhD, focuses on determining, at the mechanistic level, how a cell normally regulates processes important to cancer. He is not only a scientist, he also loves mountain biking...
Huntsman Cancer Institute's CEO, Mary Beckerle, PhD, and Senior Director of Pre-Clinical Translation, Martin McMahon, PhD, have been appointed to prominent national advisory boards within the National Institutes of ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓƵ...
Huntsman Cancer Institute recently completed the first robotic surgery used to treat a patient with primary liver cancer in the Mountain West. Dr. George Rofaiel live tweets the experience.
Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, MD, PhD, is a gastrointestinal oncologist with a special interest in pancreas cancer. In this interview, he tells us about his home and his medical training in Spain...
Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. was a visionary philanthropist who made it his personal mission to eradicate cancer from the face of the Earth. He often described his devastation after the...
Cornelia Ulrich, MS, PhD, is director of Huntsman Cancer's Institute's NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. She oversees nearly 200 cancer research teams and leads efforts to advance research in laboratory, clinical...
Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers. A founding members of The Society of Huntsman Translational Scholars, he is honored to be selected as an awardee.