Tag: Dialogue

Cancer Control research focuses on making life better for cancer patients. Now, as a patient himself, Researcher Gary Morrow, Ph.D., MS., says he’s been able to experience the science he helped to ...

Wilmot researchers are revealing new insights into what drives the disease and possible new treatment pathways.

Many doctors have doubts about medical marijuana, even when their patients want to give it a try. One Palliative Care expert at URMC helps sort out fact from fiction on the use of cannabis among ...

One local woman recently learned she has the BRCA2 mutation, after meeting with genetic counselors through Wilmot’s Hereditary Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction Program. She shared her experience.

Based partly on a love of Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown books as a child, Paula Vertino, Ph.D., decided that detective work in a science lab was a perfect career option. Today, she is the Wilmot ...

Our circadian rhythm — a scientific way to describe our bodies’ natural 24 hour cycles over the day and night— can impact when we feel sleepy or awake. But did you know cells also have their own ...

Deborah Ossip, Ph.D., leads the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Smoking Research Program and has studied tobacco use and nicotine for decades. She responds to some common criticisms of ...

Sarah Kerns, Ph.D., M.P.H., conducts research in a field known as radiogenomics. Through her work with others around the nation, she hopes to find ways to use genetic markers to identify early on ...

Albert Smith had been living with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) for a few years. For a while, he has been coming to Wilmot for infusions. That’s where he met and befriended a nurse named Kelley ...

Diagnosed with vocal cord cancer in 2011, Bob Crum immediately started attending meetings with SPOHNC-Rochester, a support group for patients with oral, head and neck cancers. He instantly fit right ...