USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
An NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Community for a Cure
Community for a Cure is the official newsletter for the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center (USC Norris). Our dynamic newsletter keeps you up to date with everything happening at USC Norris. It features scientific discoveries from our exceptional researchers, inspiring patient stories, award recognitions of our faculty and staff, groundbreaking initiatives, new faculty spotlights, developmental updates, and much more.
Have something to contribute to Community for a Cure? Send it to Hinde Kast, Communications Coordinator, at Hinde.Kast@med.usc.edu.
February 2021
Featured Stories
- Dr. Amir Goldkorn, USC Norris Associate Director for Translational Research, publishes results from a national phase III trial in Clinical Cancer Research: “Baseline circulating tumor cell count as a prognostic marker of PSA response and disease progression in metastatic castrate sensitive prostate cancer”
- USC Norris member Shannon Mumenthaler receives National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01 funding for her project to develop a micro-engineered colorectal cancer-on-a-chip model
- USC Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer (AYA@USC) Program
- USC Norris receives a new gift to provide genetic testing at no cost for patients without insurance coverage
- Always Have Hope. As Long as You Live, There Is Hope.
- New Faculty Spotlight: Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH
January 2021
Featured Stories
- NCCC investigators publish multicenter immunotherapy trial in cervical cancer patients
- Dr. Crystal Nicole Marconett awarded Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to support her research
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Awards W. Martin Kast and his team the Team Science Award
- Viewing Life through a Survivor’s Lens
- Gene and Dodie Gregg Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund
November 2020
Featured Stories
- Predicting Breast Cancer Recurrence: The Bench with Bedside Initiative™
- Swing Against Cancer with Bill Poland
- Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati earns AACR Distinguished Lectureship
- New Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer Tsui, PhD
October 2020
Featured Stories
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center receives $5 million for cancer drug discoveries
- NCI U54 CaRE2 Center for Health Equity
- AACR Report on Cancer Disparities
- New Faculty Spotlight: Steven Grossman, MD, PhD; Yali Dou, PhD