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Member Feature: Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota

February 23, 2022:

This month, the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium highlights the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota and physician-scientist Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP.

Investigator Spotlight: Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP (@cancerassassin1), Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine and Graduate Faculty Program member in the Integrative Biology and Physiology Program (IBP) at the University of Minnesota; and Medical Director of the UMN Masonic Cancer Center’s Clinical Trials Office (CTO)-Solid Tumor Unit. Read More

Investigators present prostate cancer study at 2022 GU Cancers Symposium

February 18, 2022: Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium investigators presented a Trial in Progress abstract at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancer Symposium. The abstract titled, A single arm, phase I/II trial of neoadjuvant androgen deprivation, darolutamide, and ipatasertib in men with localized, high-risk prostate cancer, is led by David J VanderWeele, MD, PhD of the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Read More

Big Ten CRC investigators present gastric, hepatocellular carcinoma studies at 2022 GI Cancers Symposium

February 14, 2022: Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium Investigators recently presented abstracts during the 2022 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. The abstracts included a poster featuring the BTCRC-GI15-015 study, led by Al B. Benson III, MD of Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, and a trials in progress poster featuring BTCRC-GI20-457 led by Kristen Renee Spencer, DO, MPH of Rutgers Cancer Institute. Read More

Big Ten CRC investigators publish results of advanced esophageal cancer study BTCRC-ESO14-012

February 12, 2022: Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (Big Ten CRC) investigators recently published results of clinical trial BTCRC-ESO14-012 in the notable Frontiers in Oncology journal.  The publication titled, A Phase II Trial of Adjuvant Durvalumab Following Trimodality Therapy for Locally Advanced Esophageal and Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: A Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium Study, found adjuvant durvalumab in patients with residual disease in the surgical specimen following trimodality therapy (a combination of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery) for locally advanced... Read More

Big Ten CRC BRE16-042 presented as a trial in progress at 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

February 11, 2022: Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium investigators presented a trial in progress abstract at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The abstract titled, A Phase II Study of Pembrolizumab plus Fulvestrant in Hormone Receptor Positive, HER-2 Negative Advanced/Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients, was presented by Nancy Chan, MD of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Read More

Carbone Cancer Center and Weiner honored during Big Ten CRC Grand Rounds

January 28, 2022:  The Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (Big Ten CRC) honored member institution, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and George Weiner, MD (pictured left), of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa on Wednesday, January 26, during the monthly Big Ten CRC Grand Rounds meeting. Read More

Not settling for average: Kratz seeks personalized treatments for GI cancers

December 7, 2021: This month, the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium highlights UW Carbone Cancer Center and Jeremy Kratz, MD, a medical oncologist and researcher at the cancer center. Dr. Kratz is a member of the Big Ten CRC's Gastrointestinal Clinical Trial Working Group. For Dr. Kratz, pushing cancer care and research forward is much more than an academic pursuit. It’s personal. Read More

Member Feature: University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

November 7, 2021: This month, the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium features our member institution University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and medical oncologist Margaret Byrne, MD, MS, clinical assistant professor of Internal Medicine-Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at the Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Byrne’s research interests include early-phase clinical trials of adjunctive therapies to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with head, neck, and lung cancers. Her clinical expertise includes thoracic malignancies and head and neck cancer. Read More

Shields, Sors lead Big Ten CRC Steering Committee

November 2, 2021: Since its founding in 2013, the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (Big Ten CRC) has experienced steady growth, guided by a Steering Committee whose members consist of one representative from each institution. Collectively, the group meets regularly to oversee the activities of the consortium and to decide matters of policy. Each year, the committee appoints a chair and a vice-chair. Peter G. Shields, MD (pictured left), of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) currently serves as Steering Committee chair, and Thomas G. Sors, PhD, of the Purdue Institute of... Read More

Omene appointed co-chair of Big Ten CRC breast cancer committee

October 28, 2021: Coral Omene, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was recently appointed as a co-chair of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium’s Breast Cancer Clinical Trial Working Group. She joins Sneha Phadke, DO, a medical oncologist at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, in leading the working group. Dr. Omene serves as assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her research focuses on triple negative breast cancer (TNBC),... Read More

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