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Researcher Story: Jonathan Brody, PhD
I began my journey into cancer research by training under world-class physicians and scientists such as Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Ralph Hruban, MD, and Scott Kern, MD. I have always been inspired by these highly accomplished individuals and motivated by the intellectual challenges that research into pancreatic cancer offers. During the past few years, through my work with Charles J. Yeo, MD, the Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chair of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, I have learned firsthand about the countless lives and families tragically...
Researcher Story: Anirban Maitra, MD
My interest in pancreatic cancer was sparked by the aggressiveness of the disease and the urgency of finding early detection and therapeutic strategies. Since receiving a Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Career Development Award in 2004, I have devoted my career to pancreatic cancer research. I am currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and Oncology at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and my laboratory is 100% dedicated to pancreatic cancer research. The focus on my research is the...
Researcher Story: David Dawson, MD, PhD
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I am a sub-specialty gastrointestinal pathologist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and cancer researcher in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. As a consequence of my clinical practice, I am acutely aware of the aggressive behavior and biology of pancreatic cancer. My awareness of the aggressive nature of this disease and the challenges it poses has propelled me to pursue both basic and translational research in pancreatic cancer. Like...
Researcher Story: Paul Grippo, PhD
I learned a valuable lesson about this disease firsthand. In a weekly men’s group meeting at my church, I watched one of my fellow members slowly decline in health, never realizing that he was suffering with pancreatic cancer. What surprised me the most was that despite studying this disease myself for over a decade, I could not recognize it in someone I had grown close to and known for several years. It was devastating to have that knowledge but be unable to provide my friend with valuable insight concerning his condition years before his...
Researcher Story: William Hawkins MD
The most difficult part of tackling what seems to be an insurmountable problem is getting started. When I reflect on pancreas cancer, pancreas cancer research and the current state of events regarding the disease, it is clear that we are off and running. I am proud to report that I have bore witness to an exponential explosion of progress in the fight against pancreas cancer. Each month, I become ever more hopeful that a major breakthrough is within reach.As a very young child, I lost my grandfather and a cousin to cancer. I had a...
Researcher Story: Ru Chen, PhD
I started to realize that cancer was a very serious word when I was a child. My mom was then a physician, so I had heard firsthand about how devastating this disease was. Through the inspiration and encouragement of my mom, I was determined to become a researcher to work on how to cure cancer ever since my childhood, My early dream became a reality after I moved to the United States for graduate school. I chose to study colon cancer as my graduate research project. After I finished my graduate work, I focused my post-doctoral research on pancreatic...
Researcher Story: Ben Stanger, MD, PhD
The first time I came face-to-face with pancreatic cancer, as a third year medical student, I had no idea how bad it was. I assumed – like most people – that some combination of surgery, chemotherapy, would be available and slow progression of the disease, at least somewhat. But of course, early detection methods and effective treatments for pancreatic cancer are sorely needed. As I learned more about the disease during clinical training, this contradiction puzzled me: What is it about this cancer that makes it so likely to spread prior to detection? Why is...
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