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”.
PGY-5 resident LeMoyne Habimana-Griffin, MD, PhD, has been selected to be a member of the Program for Underrepresented in Medicine for Equity and Diversity (PROUD-MED) 2024 Cohort. PROUD-MED is an initiative supported by the ICTS and WashU Medicine to enhance underrepresented in medicine (URiM) faculty development by providing mentored clinical research training, dedicated Research Development Program […]
PGY-3 resident and PSTP member, Vladislav Sviderskiy, MD, PhD, has been chosen to be part of the B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). The Holman Research Pathway is an alternative pathway leading to Board certification, designed for the exceptional trainee who has both strong clinical abilities and a background […]
Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD and Jessika Contreras, MD have been awarded an R37 MERIT grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3,182,644. Their work is entitled, “Accelerated Brachytherapy Forward Chemoradiation Therapy (ABC-RT) for Cervical Cancer”.
Maria Thomas, MD, PhD, and Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD both received a Siteman Investment Program grant award to further their research.
During the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting held in Chicago, Illinois, May 31 – Jun 4, Justin Barnes, MD, will receive a Conquer Cancer Merit Award. This will be his third year in a row to receive this award! In addition, Dr. Barnes will also receive a Young Investigator Award, along with his mentors Dr. Joanna […]
Tell me about your background. I was born in Atlanta but moved to Lee’s Summit, a suburb of Kansas City, MO, at a fairly young age, so I’d say I am from KC. I started my bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in mechanical engineering but switched to physics in my second year. After […]
Sana D. Karam, MD, PhD, a renowned radiation oncologist widely known for cutting-edge cancer research that combines radiation therapy and immunotherapy to treat head and neck, and pancreatic tumors, has been named the James S. McDonnell Professor of Radiation Oncology and head of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her appointment begins Oct. 1.