Aaron Viny, MD, shares his story with ALL, his gratitude to the doctors and researchers that came before him, and his commitment to advancing even better blood cancer therapies.
As new director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at CUIMC, Dr. Lewis Silverman stresses the need for collaboration in pediatric cancer.
Dr. Aaron Viny, MD MS, has been awarded the R37 MERIT grant by the National Cancer Institute for his research on mutations in the gene Stag2, frequently found in various types of cancers.
Carlos Romero was diagnosed with leukemia when he was in eighth grade. With his sister as the donor for his third stem cell transplant, Carlos is now fully in remission.
After being diagnosed in 2001 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and again in 2018 with lung cancer, Mary Ann is now successfully managing her disease and returning to her calling as an actress.
Tannishtha Reya, PhD, is establishing the new Irving Cancer Drug Discovery Program, devoted to helping faculty accelerate research discoveries in their labs to the clinic.
In the last 50 years, the main approaches for treating myelodysplastic syndromes or acute myeloid leukemia have not changed. The Kousteni lab aims to change that.
Columbia Cancer congratulates Drs. Catherine Spina and Aaron Viny, recipients of a prestigious Clinical Scientist Development Award by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
To stop acute myeloid leukemia, targeting neighboring bone cells may be a better strategy than directly targeting the cells that drive the cancer, suggests a new study led by Stavroula Kousteni, PhD.
Surviving cancer has driven Dr. Viny's work to uncover better, more effective cancer therapies. He joins Velocity this year to raise funds for critical cancer research and improve care.
HICCC researchers have combined a systems biology approach with machine learning to identify a new risk stratification for patients with pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML).