News and Events Catch up on the UVM Cancer Center's news here. Newsworthy Successes Marlene’s Cardinals: One Vermont Artist’s Fight Against Glioblastoma When Lung Screening Saves Lives: One Patient’s Story Meet Your New Oncologists Rurality Does Not Impact Outcomes of Glioblastoma Patients Diagnosed at UVMMC UVM Cancer Center Brings Free Skin Checks to Rural Vermont More News 07/30/2025 Meet the UVM Cancer Center's 2025 Juckett Summer Fellows The UVM Cancer Center is buzzing this summer as mentors and scholars dive into research. Out of 47... 07/28/2025 Novel Mechanism for ER Movement Revealed in New Publication by John Salogiannis, PhD and Trainee Allison Langley The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the largest organelle in a cell and uses tiny molecular motors to... 07/28/2025 Trip's Rip: How One Cancer Center Patient's Family Honors His Memory The year 2020 was when Floyd Bump got sick. It was also the year he bought a side-by-side—a black... 07/24/2025 Postdoctoral Trainee Deena Snoke, Ph.D., Receives Prestigious NIH Pathway to Independence Award Postdoc Deena Snoke, Ph.D., was recently awarded the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the... 07/23/2025 Cancer Center Members Awarded American Cancer Society Research Grants Two UVM Cancer Center members and one mentee of a Cancer Center member received Institutional... 07/02/2025 UVM Cancer Center Trainee Petra Kapsalis Finds Success in the Lab and on the Field A previous University of Vermont Cancer Center Summer Research Fellow and recent UVM graduate,... 06/29/2025 UVM Cancer Center Hosts Inaugural Rural Health and Cancer Conference From June 19—21, 2025, the UVM Cancer Center hosted its inaugural Rural Health and Cancer... 06/11/2025 UVM Cancer Center Pilot Study to Investigate Vermonter’s High Skin Cancer Risk Vermont has one of the highest incidence rates of melanoma in the country, and while there are a... 06/05/2025 New Publication Reveals Gene Expression Changes Upon Loss of the Cancer Implicated Protein Miro1 Just like we use electricity to power our homes, our cells have a power system as well,... 05/28/2025 It's Sun Safety Season: Protect Yourself Against Cancer-causing Sun Exposure Sun safety is easy and essential in the summer — especially in Vermont, where skin cancer rates... 05/27/2025 Trainee Spotlight: Thomas Khodadad, UVM Cancer Center ‘Cancer Host and Environment’ Research Program Tell us about yourself. Where are you from, and where are you today in your timeline of... 05/20/2025 UVM Cancer Center and Vermont Lake Monsters “Dig In” Against Cancer The Vermont Lake Monsters is again teaming up with the UVM Cancer Center for a game of hope,... 05/16/2025 Brian Sprague, PhD, awarded a University Scholars Award Brian Sprague, PhD, co-leader of the UVM Cancer Center Population Sciences and Cancer Outcomes... 05/15/2025 What’s It Like to Be on a Cancer Clinical Trial? We Asked a Patient. Clinical trials at UVMCC offer cancer patients access to groundbreaking medicine—but what’s it... 05/15/2025 New Article in The American Journal of Nursing Distinguishes Between Human Subjects Research and Quality Improvement Projects In the evolving landscape of healthcare and research, distinguishing between human subjects... 05/15/2025 Q&A with "Master Trialist" Alissa Thomas, M.D. Neuro-oncologist Alissa Thomas, M.D. understands the importance of clinical trials for advancing... 05/12/2025 A New Expert Review Provides Guidelines for Use of PSMA PET Scans for Prostate Cancer Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and is often hard to detect once it... 05/02/2025 The Cancer Center’s Outreach and Education Van Launches in Montpelier At the Vermont State House in Montpelier,UVM Cancer Center (UVMCC) launched its new Outreach and... 04/28/2025 “SciArt”: Can Art Connect Us to Cancer Science? In academia, science and art departments rarely overlap. But they do share common ground. Both... 04/18/2025 Wrap-up: 2025 Careers in Cancer Day On April 15, 90 high school students gathered at the Larner College of Medicine’s Medical... 04/04/2025 UVM Cancer Center Announces 2025 Pilot and Pre-Pilot Award Grantees The UVM Cancer Center has announced the recipients of its 2025 Pilot and Pre-Pilot Project Grants... 04/02/2025 New Publication Raises Awareness for the Advantages and Potential Harms of AI Analyses of Clinical Visits Driven by the capacity to automate medical record documentation, nearly one billion healthcare... 04/01/2025 Reem Aboushousha, PhD, Receives Parker B. Fellowship to Study the Role of GSTP in Chemotherapy Resistance Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with non-small cell lung... 03/28/2025 UVM Cancer Center and UVM Children's Hospital Offer Promising Pediatric Oncology Trial Few oncology subspecialities practice at the cutting edge of science like pediatric oncology, a... 03/24/2025 Meet the new UVM Cancer Center ‘Cancer Host and Environment’ Member — Kaitlin McCreery, Ph.D. What brought you to UVM?I grew up in the rural mountain community of Brevard, North Carolina, so... Upcoming Cancer Center Events