Impact

The Partnership has built a successful, multi-institutional, transdisciplinary cancer research program and is proud to share the impact of our collaborations. As our accomplishments below demonstrate, our focus is not only on cancer research itself, but also on research education, career development, provision of research resources, and community outreach.

*Formal Outreach Core funding began in 2013.

Research project highlights

• Nancy Rigotti, PI of the Assessing e-Cigarettes for Tobacco Harm Reduction in the Context of Lung Cancer Screening pilot project, recently published a paper titled Association between Smoking Abstinence and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms After Hospital Discharge: The Helping HAND 4 Trial in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
• Kourosh Zarringhalam of the Genomics Core was recently promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UMass Boston.
• Researchers from the Targeting Androgen Receptor Signaling in Prostate Cancer in Men with African Ancestry project, including Zifeng Wang, Songqi Zhang, Mingyu Liu, Muqing Li, and Changmeng Cai recently collaborated with the Genomics Core to publish a paper in Nature Communications titled “FOXA2 rewires AP-1 for transcriptional reprogramming and lineage plasticity in prostate cancer.”
• The Outreach Core team, including K. Vish Viswanath, Sara Minsky, and Shoba Ramanadhan, recently published a paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research titled Adapting and Evaluating a Brief Advice Tobacco Cessation Intervention in High-reach, Low-resource Settings in India: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
• David Liu of the Genomics Core received a DOD-sponsored Melanoma Team Sciences Award titled “Data-Driven Biomarker-informed Decision Analytics in Melanoma: Improving Efficacy and Reducing Toxicity of Immune Checkpoint Blockade.”