Volume 4, Number 29 - October 5, 2009

In this issue:

• $3.6 million from National Cancer Institute backs training of clinical cancer researchers
• Philanthropist Sheri Biller selected as City of Hope board’s new chair-elect
• Survivors and supporters step up against breast cancer in L.A. Walk for Hope
• Stimulus funding nets mass spectrometer
• Walk for Hope raffle offers eco-friendly wheels and bag with a celebrity touch
• Researchers uncover how a common biomolecule helps kill cancer cells
• Partners “go pink” to back breast cancer programs
• Investigation shows expansive waistlines may mean serious respiratory problems for women

Take a bow

LA Opera artists, from left, Daniel Faltus, Erica Brookhyser, Daniel Montenegro and Lori Ann Fuller receive a standing ovation at the end of their recent concert at City of Hope.

Members of the Los Angeles Opera performed arias, songs from “Showboat” and other favorites at their “Melodies and More” performance Sept. 18. More than 250 City of Hope employees, patients and community members attended the event at Cooper Auditorium. The next campus performance will take place in December. (Photo by p.cunningham)