• Team amasses evidence of gene’s potential as target for hematologic cancer treatment
• Optimism binds patients together as they celebrate their cancer survivorship
• Graduate students and new scientists feature prominently at annual research staff meeting
• Blood Donor Center honors area high school student heroes with new recognition program
• City of Hope physicians named “Top Doctors”
• New childcare center provides option to City of Hope

 

Thank you notes

LA Opera soprano Janai Brugger-Orman performed “Summertime” from the classic Gershwin opera, ”Porgy and Bess,” for more than 370 faculty and staff members, patients and community members at a May 5 recital in City of Hope’s Cooper Auditorium.

Brugger-Orman and six other artists, along with their head coach and accompanist, Nino Sanikidze, delivered the free performance as one of many described as “thank you gifts” to the Greater Los Angeles community in celebration of the LA Opera’s 25th anniversary.

The celebratory recitals feature artists from LA Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program. Opera legend Placido Domingo oversees the residency program, which supports and trains singers and pianists deemed exceptionally talented and who are transitioning from academic training to a professional career in opera. (Photo by Darrin S. Joy)