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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine – Year in Review 2013
February 5, 2014
The News Center of the Feinberg School of Medicine released their 2013 Year in Review highlighting the growth and success of the previous year. A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists, including our very own Dr.…
Northwestern and OHSU Designated as Centers of Excellence for AYA Oncology
November 15, 2013
Last week, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University were designated the first-ever Centers of Excellence in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology care. According to the Health Care Rights Initiative, which launched the…
Announcing new Book on Oncofertility Communication: Sharing Information and Building Relationships across Disciplines
October 24, 2013
Oncofertility Consortium is proud to announce the publication of its fourth book, Oncofertility Communication: Sharing Information and Building Relationships across Disciplines. The book, published by Springer, describes the corridors of collaboration between disciplines that are needed to bridge fields that are not traditionally…
First Human Live Birth Reported from Vitrified Ovarian Tissue
October 2, 2013
Reproductive scientists across the globe have been discussing the news that a group from Japan has just reported the first human birth from previously vitrified ovarian tissue. The article, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes the research by Kawamuraa,…
New York Times Covers Fertility After Cancer
September 25, 2013
A new article in the New York Times discusses some new research and clinical advances in oncofertility. The piece, After Cancer, Fertility Is Often Within Reach, discusses some of the new findings in reproductive health survivorship after cancer that were recently announced in the Lancet Oncology. It also…
Endocrine Society Announces Barbara Keenan as new CEO
September 23, 2013
Today the Endocrine Society announced that Barbara Byrd Keenan will join the team as the new Chief Executive Officer. In a recent press release, the society’s president, Teresa Woodruff, PhD, made the announcement and noted that, “Ms. Keenan will be instrumental in helping the Society…