Donghua Hu, PhD, instructor of radiation oncology and a member of the Schwarz Lab and Vaishali Kapoor, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology and PI of her own lab both received Early Career Investigator Travel Awards to the RRS 2025 Annual Meeting. This meeting will be held in September in Puerto Rico.
The Radiation Research Society (RRS) granted Scholar-In-Training (SIT) Travel Awards to four cancer biologists. Liyun Chen, PhD is part of the Markovina Lab. Ana Carolina Paschoalini Mafra, PhD, Naoshad Muhammad, PhD and Tito Sandoval, PhD work in the Schwarz Lab. They will attend the 2025 RRS Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico in September.
Jiayi Huang, MD, MSCI, professor of radiation oncology and chief of the CNS/Gamma Knife service has been promoted to associate director of The Brain Tumor Center at Siteman Cancer Center. Huang previously served as clinical director of The Brain Tumor Center. He has led investigations into the use of novel drugs in glioblastoma and meningioma […]
2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the 1st patient treated with StereoTactic Arrhythmia Radiotherapy (STAR) by team leads Clifford Robinson, MD and Phillip Cuculich, MD. In ten years, the team has given many talks, been featured in the media, formed a center, held international symposiums, helped 100+ centers begin STAR programs and now treated their […]
Hua Li, PhD, DABR, has been elected as a Fellow of AAPM and will be bestowed this honor at the AAPM annual Conference this July.
Christopher Abraham, MD and Matthew Schmidt, PhD are leaders of one of the winning teams in the WashU Department of Medicine’s Big Ideas Competition. They have been awarded $50,000 grant funding for their project titled “Clinical Trials API: Web Services for Modern Radiation Oncology”. Their team also includes Doug Caruthers, MS, Jason Labrash, MS, Lindsey […]
Briefcase Coach has curated a list of extraordinary women in the greater St. Louis area who embody excellence, empowerment, and advocacy. These leaders are redefining what’s possible and paving the way for future generations.
Recipients of the Dean’s Impact Awards represent the compassion, innovation, and commitment required to build dynamic, meaningful, and community-focused efforts to improve clinical care, education, and research. Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, exemplifies that compassion, innovation and commitment to equity.
Dr. Lannis Hall, MD, MPH, an associate professor of clinical radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been honored with one of the 2025 Provost Impact Awards by the WashU Confluence Collaborative. This accolade celebrates the program titled “Empowering Young Women Through Breast Health Education: A Partnership with Siteman Cancer […]
Both received grants from Radformation, Inc. to continue their research.
ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) recognized Dr. Joanna Yang as 2024 Advocate of the Year for her incredible work bridging the gap between clinical practice & legislative action. Dr. Yang’s advocacy efforts have been instrumental in educating lawmakers on real-world effects of health care policies.
Dr. Jennifer De Los Santos, professor of radiation oncology at WashU Medicine, thank you for talking with us today. As we observe Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month this April, we remember the recent passing of actor Val Kilmer, who lost his battle to laryngeal cancer. Can you tell us a little about the importance […]
Jin Zhang, PhD, MPHS, associate professor of radiation oncology and a member of the cancer biology division, has been granted tenure from the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting March 7.
Post-doc, Dr. Zhihua Liu has recently been selected as a finalist for the Young Investigator Award. The Annual MRinRT symposium is the largest international conference for MR applications in RT. This is the 11th MRinRT symposium and Dr. Liu will present her work at the symposium in New York City. WashU hosted the first one […]
Dr. David T. Curiel, Professor of Radiation Oncology is a co-collaborator on the vector design for a novel inhaled or nasal vaccine that will soon be in Phase 1 clinical trials here in the US.
This week our team successfully completed an adaptive treatment on a patient, once again utilizing our ViewRay Systems MRIdian machine. The MRIdian uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to precisely target tumors in real time. This machine is also equipped with adaptive technology, allowing doctors to adjust treatment plans each day to account for changes in organ […]
Michael Waters, MD, PhD, has been awarded a WashU Gap Fund grant in the amount of $46,520. This fund is operated by the Office of Technology Management at WashU and the award is to support translational work for the technology, “Convolutional Neural Network Classification of Pretreatment Biopsies of Rectal Adenocarcinoma Predicts Complete Clinical Response to […]
Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, was granted tenure by the WashU Board of Trustees in their December, 2024 meeting.
Clifford G. Robinson, MD, FASTRO, was granted tenure by the WashU Board of Trustees in their September 27 meeting.
Dr. Stephanie Perkins has received an NCI grant for $249,997 for her work “Pediatric Proton and Photon Therapy Comparison Cohort”, with a start date of 11/1/2024.
Dennis Hallahan, MD, FASTRO, and Abhay Singh, PhD have been awarded a grant from the Needleman Program for Innovation & Commercialization for $328,340. Their work is entitled “Bispecific T Cell effectors targeting an inducible cancer cell surface antigen”.
The event honored recipients of their first R01 research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Radiation Oncology was well-represented here, including Jessika Contreras, MD, Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, Jin Zhang, PhD and Stephanie Perkins, MD (not pictured, but also recently received first R01).
Congratulations to these researchers!
Our Siteman Cancer Center Barnes Jewish West County Hospital location has been expanded & upgraded. This state-of-the-art facility provides an even better patient-centered experience with additional exam rooms, larger changing rooms and a brand new Varian TrueBeam radiotherapy machine with advanced Hypersight CBCT imaging. Siteman Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer […]
PGY-5 Resident Justin Barnes, MD, has been chosen to receive the Quick Pitch Oral Abstract Recognition Award at the 2024 ASTRO annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Abstract awards are only given to the top-scoring abstracts after a rigorous peer review process, and this year, only 30 winners were selected from nearly 2,000 abstract submissions!
Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, METEOR Clinical Trial and Project 1 Co-l (Cervix) Lead has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $2,865,128. Her work is entitled “The role of SERPINB3 in cervical cancer therapeutic resistance”.