02.03.2012
The Miller Office of Research is sponsoring the third annual University-wide Shared Resources Fair on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. The goal of the fair is to improve awareness of University resources with an eye toward promoting scientific collaboration.
01.26.2012
Accompanied by the Miller School's Joseph Rosenblatt, M.D., and Michael Lewis, MD., Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., joined Florida Governor Rick Scott last month on a trade mission to Israel aimed at attracting Israeli companies to Florida and fostering stronger ties between the Sunshine State and the Jewish state.
01.25.2012
Former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mark “Super” Duper had a rough ride during the second annual Dolphins Cycling Challenge on November 5, 2011. He never dreamed that as he was riding his bicycle to raise money for Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in memory of Dolphins great Jim “Mad Dog” Mandich, there was a cancerous tumor growing inside his own body.
01.24.2012
Thanks to a $2 million gift from businessman, philanthropist, and UM alumnus Alexander “Alex” Daly, UHealth-University of Miami Health System’s youngest cancer patients soon will receive outpatient care in a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility that caters to the unique needs of children.
01.24.2012
Keyvan Nouri, M.D., the Richard Helfman Professor of Dermatologic Surgery, director of Mohs Micrographic Surgery, Dermatology, and Laser Surgery, and chief of Dermatology Services, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, accepted the first Louis C. Skinner, Jr., M.D., Endowed Chair in Dermatology at a January 18 ceremony on the Miller School campus.
01.18.2012
A team of Miller School physician-scientists has demonstrated that an antagonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) has the ability to suppress the progression of late stage prostate cancer.
12.06.2011
The second annual Dolphins Cycling Challenge fulfilled its mission of doubling the first year’s fundraising goal. At Sunday’s Dolphins game, the Miami Dolphins Foundation presented a check for $1,070,000 from the Dolphins Cycling Challenge to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The amount is one of the largest gifts ever to Sylvester from a single event.
12.06.2011
The Miller School’s Izidore Lossos, M.D., professor of medicine, was among eight lymphoma experts from the U.S. and Europe to receive a Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) grant to investigate new treatments for follicular and mantle cell lymphomas.
11.29.2011
Cancer survivors and their caregivers brought high fashion to Downtown Miami as they walked the runway as “model” patients at “Designed for a Cure,” raising more than $300,000 for cancer research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
11.15.2011
When David A. Lubarsky, M.D., M.B.A., the Emanuel M. Papper Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management, joined the Miller School more than a decade ago, he was intent on establishing a departmental pain clinic and, over the years, oversaw at least eight different plans.