Dr. Samir N. Khleif will step down as director of the Georgia Cancer Center. “I am grateful to Dr. Khleif for his leadership and wish him much future success,” said President Brooks A. Keel. “We have a talented group of clinical and research faculty...
A clinical trial at the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University featuring a homegrown discovery is drawing kids from other prestigious cancer centers across the country. These children are being treated with Indoximod, an inhibitor of the enzyme...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University will partner with the Press On Fund, Episcopal Day School and Saint Mary on the Hill Catholic School for the Sixth Annual Battle of the Hill football game. The game, held in support of...
Georgia Cancer Center Director Dr. Samir N. Khleif chairs advisory workshop AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Samir N. Khleif, director of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, chaired a National Academy of Medicine workshop on policy issues in the...
Khleif to participate in White House discussion to improve patient access to records AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Samir N. Khleif will represent the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University at the National Cancer Moonshot Summit held June 29 at Howard...
The Georgia Cancer Center has seen tremendous progress in its research and patient care missions and has been highlighted by Augusta University President and Augusta University Health System CEO Brooks A. Keel as a key institutional priority. In...
The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is celebrating its expansion by asking everyone with a cancer story to come write on its walls. Soon demolition will begin on the Georgia Cancer Center’s M. Bert Storey Research building – the first...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The GRU Cancer Center will become the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. “This new name not only reflects our status as the state of Georgia’s official cancer center, but our commitment to research, treatment and outreach in...
Immunotherapy can help fight cancer by working with the body’s own immune system, and some of its top researchers are right here in Georgia, according to a new article in Georgia Trend magazine. After decades of research and development...
Augusta, Ga. – Dr. Samir N. Khleif, director of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, will chair the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Radiation and Immunotherapy Leadership Summit in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, March...
Augusta, Ga. — Students from Episcopal Day School spent the morning of Wednesday, March 2, touring the Cancer Center at Augusta University. Approximately 40 8th grade students visited clinical and research facilities and met with physicians...
“When Patrick Chance smiles, you can’t help but root for him.” That first sentence, positioned right below the smiling face of Patrick Chance himself, introduced readers to a courageous little boy who had a big impact on all who knew him and also to...
Dr. Samir N. Khleif, director of the GRU Cancer Center at Georgia Regents University, was presented a proclamation of excellence at the Augusta Economic Development Authority’s inaugural Celebration of Industries luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at...
Leadership Augusta, the long-running leadership development program, is getting a big dose of Georgia Regents University Thursday as it turned its attention to the arts. Known for his ideas about creativity, Scott Thorpe, chair of the Department of...
Dr. Samir N. Khleif, Director of the GRU Cancer Center at Georgia Regents University, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), the most prestigious organization in the field of cancer immunology...
Georgia Regents University widened its already broad cancer focus Friday when it hosted the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer CME- and CNE-certified regional program “Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy – Augusta, Georgia.” Organized by Dr. Esteban...
When Patrick Chance smiles, you can’t help but to root for him. He’s a handsome child. Tall for his age, he was blessed with one of those classic boyhood grins – the sort of smile we convince ourselves exists only in fond memories and Saturday...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Press On, a donor-advised fund of The Community Foundation for the CSRA that is pushing for a cure for childhood cancer, is giving $2.5 million to fund translational pediatric cancer research and cutting-edge treatment alternatives at...
At January’s second annual TEDx event, an impressive number of speakers – four of the 17 to be exact – were from GRU. “For Georgia Regents University to be able to share some of its innovative thinkers with a TEDx Augusta that is potentially...
The Georgia Regents University Cancer Center today launched an initiative seeking to reduce the burden of cancer among minority and underserved populations in Georgia. Within the cancer-Community Awareness Access Research and Education initiative...
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