All Posts: Georgetown Lombardi
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Meet the 2025 BellRinger Fellows
Meet this year’s BellRinger Fellows, who worked alongside investigators at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, gaining valuable experience and insight into how cancer research is conducted.
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Celebrating a Milestone in Cancer Research
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of a paper by now-Georgetown Lombardi member Marc E. Lippman, MD, MACP, FRCP, and his colleague Gail Bolan, MD, that showed for the first time that the hormone estrogen can drive the growth of breast cancer. It was a pivotal moment in cancer research that has led to life-extending and lifesaving treatments for the thousands of people who develop breast cancer each year.
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Georgetown Faculty Share Research and Explore Collaborations on Global Cervical Cancer
In June 2025, the Global Cancer Collaborative, a joint initiative between the Georgetown University Global Health Institute and Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, hosted a seminar on cervical cancer. Three presenters from Georgetown detailed their current work, and attendees from across the university were invited to discuss new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Tumor Biology Program Alumnus Jean-Baptiste Mazarati Builds Health Care Excellence in Rwanda
Since graduating from Georgetown with a PhD in Tumor Biology in 2012, Jean-Baptiste Mazarati has emerged as a health leader in his native Rwanda.
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Lombardi Gala Brings Together Friends, Supporters
Continuing a tradition spanning nearly four decades, more than 450 friends and supporters of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center gathered for an evening of elegant fun and fundraising at the 37th annual Lombardi Gala.
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Gift Strengthens Support for Parents with Cancer and Their Families
Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the establishment of a new initiative designed to provide information and support services to parents with cancer. Thanks to a substantial gift from Elizabeth’s Smile, a cancer support organization co-founded by Nancy Hungerford, Georgetown Lombardi will develop an Interventions for Managing Parenting and Cancer Team (IMPACT) and a signature program called Family Circle by Elizabeth’s Smile.
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With a New ‘Map’ of Cells, Georgetown Cancer Researchers Chart a Course to More Effective Treatment
Faculty and students from Biomedical Graduate Education programs, the School of Medicine and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are developing a new technique that could revolutionize the way cancers are tracked and treated. Instead of invasive surgical biopsies or time-consuming scans, clinicians could use simple blood tests to determine where the cancer is and whether it is responding to treatment.
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Tumor Biology Student Sidharth Jain Combines Discovery and Care on MD/PhD Path
As an MD/PhD in Tumor Biology student, Sidharth Jain works between two worlds of health science. On the PhD side, lab research, data analysis and discovery; on the MD side, patients fighting for their lives.
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Celebrating Its 15th Anniversary, Ruesch Center Honors Founder
Since its establishment in September 2009, the Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has been dedicated to advancing transformative research to save lives. At the Luminary Awards in GI Cancer, attendees honored the countless contributions of Jeanne Ruesch, chair of the Ruesch Family Foundation and founder of the Ruesch Center.
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Oral Health Scholars Raise Awareness About the Relationship Between Oral and Systemic Health
While oral health is often treated as something separate from overall health, it can act as an early warning system for serious conditions, including cancer and heart disease. With funding from the George E. Richmond Foundation, researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are training students to educate their communities about the importance of oral health.
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