All Posts:HPV
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School of Health Student Presents Foundational Cancer Research at International Conference
School of Health student Keerthana Ramanathan (H’26) presented her team’s foundational cancer research at the 37th International Papillomavirus Conference (IPVS) in Bangkok, Thailand, in October. The IPVS is the primary international research conference for human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Georgetown Global Health and Cancer Researchers Tackle Public Health Challenge in Eswatini
A collaboration between researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and a Georgetown global health team in Eswatini aims to address a significant public health challenge: preventing cervical cancer.
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Student Cancer Researcher Launches Medical Career at Georgetown
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Schlegel Honored at GUMC Convocation with Lifetime Contribution Award
(November 26, 2019) — At the Twelfth Annual GUMC Convocation, Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, was honored with the Lifetime Contribution to GUMC Award for his decades-long dedication to decreasing the incidence of cervical cancer worldwide. Demonstrating his continuing commitment, Schlegel is currently focused on two research priorities to help cancer patients. One: continue testing a […]
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Schlegel Shares Updates on Preventing and Treating Cervical Cancer
Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology and director of the Center for Cell Reprogramming at Georgetown University Medical Center, talked about the need to increase vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) and decrease the global burden of cervical cancer at Doctors Speak Out on April 30.
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Schlegel Strives to Create Another Cervical Cancer Game Changer
While the HPV vaccine has been a game changer, recent research by Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, may lead to another advance by treating women already infected with HPV and a precancerous condition that often leads to the development of cervical cancer.
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Georgetown Lombardi Urges HPV Vaccination for Cancer Prevention
WASHINGTON — In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center joined with other top cancer centers in a joint statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer. These institutions collectively recognize insufficient vaccination as a public health threat and call upon the nations’ health care providers, young adults and parents to take advantage of the opportunity to prevent cancers.
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Medical Center Researchers Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Two Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers–Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, and Anatoly Dritschilo, MD–have been named 2014 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for their groundbreaking discoveries.
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Two Georgetown University Medical Center Researchers Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
WASHINGTON — Two Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have been named 2014 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): —Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, Oscar B. Hunter Chair of Pathology, and Anatoly Dritschilo, MD, chair of radiation medicine.
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Schlegel Honored for Research and Teaching with New University Award
Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, chair of the department of pathology and professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teaching.
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