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UVM Cancer Center Hosts Third Annual Scientific Retreat

R1 Larner Spotlight: Skin Deep—Tracing the DNA Clues Behind Skin Cancer

Why Qualitative Research Matters: Q&A With Elise Tarbi, PhD, AGPCNP-BC

UVM Cancer Center’s Rural Cancer Care Initiatives

Four Larner Faculty Awarded Project Grants by UVM Cancer Center

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01/21/2026

Rally Against Cancer Winter 2026

“Rally Against Cancer” is an annual campaign to raise awareness for cancer research taking...

01/16/2026

Brian Cunniff, Ph.D., Named Inaugural Juckett Faculty Scholar at the UVM Cancer Center

The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) is proud to announce the appointment of Brian...

01/14/2026

Sylvie Doublié, Ph.D., Invested as Inaugural Green and Gold Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Structural biologist and biochemist Sylvie Doublié, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of...

01/08/2026

R1 Larner Spotlight: Can Less Treatment Still Cure HPV+ Cancer?

Among the human papilloma virus (HPV)–related cancers on the rise is oropharyngeal cancer, a kind...

01/08/2026

UVM Cancer Center Researchers Awarded American Cancer Society Discovery Boost Grant

The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) is proud to share that Frances Carr, PhD, has...

01/07/2026

Meet Your New Oncologists

We’re excited to introduce three outstanding physicians who have recently joined the University...

12/16/2025

UVM Cancer Center Announces 2026 Pilot and Award Grantees

The UVM Cancer Center is proud to announce the recipients of its 2026 Pilot and Pre-Pilot Project...

11/25/2025

Honoring Vermont’s Caregivers: The Unseen Backbone of Cancer Care

November is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to recognize individuals who provide essential...

11/24/2025

VT Digger Op-Ed by Randall Holcombe, MD, MBA: The Vermont cancer care model, a rural cancer care revolution

This commentary is by Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., of Burlington. He is the associate dean for...

11/18/2025

UVMCC Launches Emerging Leaders Corps

The UVM Cancer Center (UVMCC) is excited to announce the Emerging Leaders Corp (ELC)—a new...

11/17/2025

Hospitals Across the Region Host Lung Screening Events

Clinicians across Vermont and northern New York hope to expand lung cancer screening efforts this...

10/22/2025

Graduate Trainee, Maggie Trout, Receives ChadTough Defeat DIPG 2025 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

UVM Cancer Center pre-doctoral candidate, Maggie Trout, was recently awarded a Pre-Doctoral...

10/20/2025

New Publication Reveals Mechanical Forces Drive Stem Cell Differentiation

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—adult cells reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem...

10/17/2025

Meet Tom Ahern, PhD, MPH: One of the UVMCC’s Breast Cancer Researchers

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are excited to introduce you to one of the University...

10/14/2025

Meet the New Cancer Host and Environment Member Jeremy Logue, PhD

The UVM Cancer Center Cancer Host and Environmentresearch program recently welcomed new member,...

10/13/2025

New Grant Enables Researchers to Explore the Impact of Remotely Delivered Exercise Programs for Cancer Patients

World Trade Center (WTC) rescue and recovery workers (Responders) have a 6-14% higher incidence of...

09/29/2025

The Power of Collaboration – Novel Model System to Study Lung Cancer Cachexia

Despite most patients with lung cancer experiencing significant weight loss (cancer cachexia),...

09/22/2025

UVM Cancer Center’s 28th Annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference Showcases ‘The Leading Edge of Cancer Care’

More than 600 registrants joined in person and online to explore innovations in oncology, patient...

09/11/2025

Generous Gift Establishes the Susan Lewis Levy Whole Health Cancer Program

Richard (Dick) Levy has made a transformative gift to write a new chapter in cancer care at...

09/10/2025

How Do We Engage Rural Cancer Survivors in Research?

Rural cancer survivors face worse outcomes than their urban counterparts. To improve outcomes, it...

09/04/2025

Funding the Science That Finds a Cure: How Philanthropy Supports a Novel Treatment for Mesothelioma

At first glance, the Kentucky Derby celebration held on May 3rd of 2025 at the Country Club of Troy...

09/03/2025

Marlene’s Cardinals: One Vermont Artist’s Fight Against Glioblastoma

Some say that when a cardinal appears after the loss of a loved one, it’s a sign of their...

08/28/2025

When Lung Screening Saves Lives: One Patient’s Story

Laundry day is Gretchen Bailey’s favorite day on the farm in Panton, Vermont. When the sun’s...

08/22/2025

Rurality Does Not Impact Outcomes of Glioblastoma Patients Diagnosed at UVMMC

For most cancer types, patients who live in rural areas have worse outcomes than those who live in...

07/31/2025

UVM Cancer Center Brings Free Skin Checks to Rural Vermont

A key tenant of the Cancer Center’s mission is to bring cancer education and prevention to...

07/31/2025

Bhurosy’s Study Reveals Food Insecurity Among Young Adult Cancer Survivors

Cancer survivors often face an array of unique challenges. For some, that includes a heightened...

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...

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