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Barbara Burtness, MD, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Chief Translational Research Officer at Yale Cancer Center, and Chief of Head and Neck Cancers/Sarcoma, and Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, have been named Fellows of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO).

Starting July 21, 2024 Dr. Eric P. Winer, the director of the Yale Cancer Center and President and Physician-in-Chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital, becomes the new host of the long-running Connecticut Public Radio show Yale Cancer Answers, airing weekly since 2006.

Trainee colloquium at YCC

Dr. Barbara Burtness Receives Presidential Citation from AAO-HNS.

Dr. Barbara Burtness discusses how she has applied advances in molecular biology to better treat patients with head and neck cancers.

Camille C. R. Ragin, PhD, MPH — a member of the collaborative SPORE research program for Head and Neck Cancer at Yale — was honored with a lectureship at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

Curtis Pickering and the Yale Head and Neck SPORE organized the first symposium of the Yale-NY region on head and neck translational research at Yale West Campus on April 12, 2024.

Reflecting the complexities of the disease, cancer research is an ever-evolving field requiring constant infusions of innovation and funding. Starting this year, those resources at Yale Cancer Center will be augmented by its Translational Incubator, an initiative to further support and accelerate cooperation and collaboration among Yale experts.

On March 15, 2024, Dr. Barbara Burtness presented at the 75th Anniversary of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).