By Atlal Abusanad, MD, MSc, FRCPC, CIP

A few years ago, I moved from the country where I got my training and initial job as a junior medical oncologist to my home country. At approximately the same time, after losing the 45th presidential election, Hillary Clinton gave her concession address where she stated that the glass ceiling could not be broken to elect a woman president.

Most of us aren't getting enough sleep. And there are surprising racial implications to who can sleep and when.

Date: December 16, 2021

Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Location: Zoom

This December, the Karmanos Health Equity Book Club will be reading the book Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine. We are extremely pleased to announce that we will be joined by the author, Damon Tweedy, M.D. to discuss the book and his work.

Register to join us today! The webinar is limited to 500 people, so space is limited.

Date: November 25, 2021

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Location: Biological Sciences Building

An informal opportunity for Wayne State women to get out for some fresh air, exercise, and comradery.

Grant Application Due: February 1, 2022 @ 11:59 PM EST.

Opens in late December 2021. (Confirmed)

The goal of the PhRMA Foundation’s Translational Medicine Program is to promote the development of an integrative approach that addresses clinical needs in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention using both experimental and computational methods. The Foundation believes that, towards this goal, it is critical that researchers collaborate with clinicians to identify critical unmet clinical needs. This can lead to an enhanced understanding of human biological and disease processes but requires a strong translational component that is bi-directional, i.e., starting from bedside to bench. This program will support such approaches to Translational Medicine.

Application Due: January 22, 2022

Reapplication Date: May 25, 2022

(Confirmed)

The proposed Program may address any of the broad areas of cancer research, including (but not limited to) cancer biology, cancer prevention, cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and cancer control. Basic, translational, clinical, and/or population-based studies in all of these research areas are appropriate.

Each application submitted in response to this FOA must consist of at least three research projects and an Administrative Core. The projects must share a common central theme, focus, and/or overall objective.