Vol 1 | Issue 4 | November 2018
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For the 9th year in a row, the GW Cancer Center fielded a charity Marine Corps Marathon and MCM10K team. The team raised over $18K to support the Cancer Center. Many thanks to all who participated.
A host of representatives from across GW recently celebrated the soft opening of a new multi-disciplinary clinical space at the MFA. The clinic provides 4,600 feet of additional space for cancer patients.
GW recently hosted ScienceWriters2018, a national professional development conference for science writers and journalists. Several GW Cancer Center members shared about their work.
Lorien Abroms, ScD, interim associate center director for population sciences and policy at the GW Cancer Center, was recently selected to attend a workshop on "Implementing Digital Health Interventions for Cancer Prevention" where her team was chosen as a finalist and awarded $50,000 to conduct their proposed research project. Check out her Q&A to learn more about her work.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The latest cancer news
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mark your calendars
RECENT MEMBER AWARDS
Ami Zota, ScD: Documenting Products Use and Availability Among Black and Latina Women in California (Occidental College)

Kathleen Griffith, PhD: Progressive Activity-Based Rehabilitation in Veteran Cancer Survivors with Chronic Pain (Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System)

Sara Rosenbaum, JD: Using Medicaid Managed Care to Strengthen Primary Health Care (Episcopal Health Foundation)

Michael Long, PhD: Increasing Cost Effective Decision Making to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Reduce Disparities (The JPB Foundation)
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DC Department of Health: Tobacco Cessation and Health Systems Change (due 11/30)

OVPR: Cross-Disciplinary Research Fund (LOI due 11/30, full proposal due 1/31/19)




Looking for additional funding opportunities and announcements? Check out the latest Funding Flash or Research Matters .