Graham Cancer Center trains international researchers for participation in Cancer Genome Atlas Project

Graham Cancer Center trains international researchers for participation in Cancer Genome Atlas Project

Researchers visit the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center for The Cancer Genome Project training: (from left) Stephen Suh, Ph.D., John Theurer Cancer Center ‘s director of genome and biomarkers program; Tania Zielonka and Yvonne Remache, Theurer Cancer Center; Carol Robles MS, PA(ASCP), University of Maryland Medical System; and Teri A. Longacre, M.D., associate director of surgical pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine.
February 6, 2013
Researchers visit the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center for The Cancer Genome Atlas Project training: (front row, from left) Greta Foley, Gunderson Lutheran; Dr. Hongzheng Zhang and Kelly Magliocca, Emory University; Tina Marie Knutson, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; (back row from left) Steven Cash, Gunderson Lutheran; Judy Miller, St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital; Joseph Galbraith, University of Iowa; Colin Kennedy, Gunderson Lutheran; and Jennifer Sapp, St. Joseph’s/Candler.

The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care is teaching best practices for participation in The Cancer Genome Atlas Project to researchers from major university cancer-research programs across the country.

Stanford University School of Medicine sent an associate professor of pathology/associate director of surgical pathology for training at the Graham Cancer Center and the Tissue Procurement Center at Christiana Hospital. Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute researchers visited in January, and in February, researchers from Nigeria’s Institute of Human Virology will visit.

“The Cancer Genome Atlas Project participation at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center has required a coordinated effort between the Departments of Surgery, Pathology, Anesthesiology, Perioperative Services and Cancer Research,” said Nicholas J. Petrelli, M.D., Bank of America endowed medical director of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. “The effort truly has been multidisciplinary and has brought national recognition to the Helen F Graham Cancer Center. Our team is justifiably proud that the NCI designated our cancer center as a training site for major university programs’ participation in the Cancer Genome Atlas Project.”

Researchers visit the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center for The Cancer Genome Project training: (from left) Stephen Suh, Ph.D., John Theurer Cancer Center ‘s director of genome and biomarkers program; Tania Zielonka and Yvonne Remache, Theurer Cancer Center; Carol Robles MS, PA(ASCP), University of Maryland Medical System; and Teri A. Longacre, M.D., associate director of surgical pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Researchers visit the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center for The Cancer Genome Atlas Project training: (from left) Stephen Suh, Ph.D., John Theurer Cancer Center ‘s director of genome and biomarkers program; Tania Zielonka and Yvonne Remache, Theurer Cancer Center; Carol Robles MS, PA(ASCP), University of Maryland Medical System; and Teri A. Longacre, M.D., associate director of surgical pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Training focuses on the multidisciplinary approach to screening, collecting, preparing, storing and shipping potential tissue samples for the National Cancer Institute sponsored genetics research.

Other major U.S. cancer research programs that have trained or will train at Christiana Care include: the John Theurer Cancer Center of Hackensack, N.J.; the universities of Maryland, South Carolina and Iowa; the F. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation; and the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital, Savannah, Ga.

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