News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
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Grants Bolster Research on Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Foundation awards $1.5 million total in grants to WashU Medicine researchers at Siteman Cancer Center to advance precision diagnosis and treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes The Edward P. Evans Foundation has awarded separate three-year Discovery Research Grants to Jeremy Baeten, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, and Matthew Walter, MD, the Edward P. Evans Endowed Professor of Myelodysplastic […]
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Siteman Cancer Center Prevention Expert Named Guggenheim Fellow
With the prestigious award, Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, will write a book examining why cancers are increasingly occurring earlier in life — and how this shift can be better understood, communicated and prevented. Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, has been named a 2026 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of the nation’s most prestigious […]
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Siteman Catalyst Awards Support Groundbreaking Science
Four researchers receive new funding to explore brain‑sparing radiation, smarter leukemia drugs, better BRCA1 risk prediction and new strategies against aggressive pancreatic cancer Four WashU Medicine researchers at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, have received Siteman Catalyst Awards to pursue innovative ideas that could change how cancers are detected and treated. Each awardee is receiving $100,000 […]
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Siteman Cancer Center Experts to be Recognized, Present Key Research at AACR Annual Meeting
Two WashU Medicine physician-scientists will be honored, and 30 faculty members and others will present findings at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026, taking place April 17-22 in San Diego. At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026, WashU Medicine scientists and physician-researchers at Siteman Cancer Center are demonstrating […]
In the Media, Staff/Faculty Update
Siteman Leader Installed as President of Society of Gynecologic Oncology
Matthew Powell, MD, to head national efforts to advance innovative gynecologic cancer care for patients Matthew A. Powell, MD, the Ira C. and Judith Gall Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at WashU Medicine and a nationally recognized physician-scientist who treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has been installed as […]
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Podany Named to Inaugural NCCN Advocacy Academy
WashU Medicine physician-scientist Emily L. Podany, MD, MPHS, has been selected for a new fellowship program that aims to connect people on the front lines of cancer care to share their knowledge and experience with federal policymakers. Launched by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the Advocacy Academy aims to provide oncology fellows and junior faculty at NCCN member […]
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DiPersio Honored with National AACR Research Award
American Association for Cancer Research highlights physician-scientist’s pioneering advances in leukemia biology, stem cell transplantation and cellular immunotherapy John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, a pioneering WashU Medicine physician-scientist at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, will be recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to science at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026 in […]
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Murphy to Receive AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology
Recognition honors pioneering discoveries that have paved the way for more effective cancer immunotherapies WashU Medicine researcher Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, has been named the recipient of the 2026 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)-Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology. Murphy, the Eugene Opie First Centennial Professor in pathology and immunology at WashU Medicine and […]
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NCCN Recognizes Podany as 2026 Young Investigator Award Recipient
WashU Medicine physician-scientist Emily L. Podany, MD, MPHS, has been named a 2026 recipient of a prestigious NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Award, given by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and NCCN Foundation. Podany is an assistant professor of medicine at WashU Medicine and a medical oncologist who treats patients diagnosed with breast cancer at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish […]
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Stewart Elected to AACR Board of Directors
Sheila A. Stewart, PhD, associate director for basic science and co-leader of the Mechanisms of Cancer Biology Program at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has been elected to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Board of Directors. Stewart, who is also the Gerty Cori Professor and vice chair of the […]