“We are excited to welcome Dr. Bryce to City of Hope Cancer Center Phoenix and look forward to his leadership in delivering advanced cancer care to Arizona patients,” said Kevin...

In a significant breakthrough that could eventually extend the survival of patients with one of the deadliest of all malignancies, an international team of researchers has devised an investigational blood...

Scientists with City of Hope® and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, may have discovered one of the reasons why a type of leukemia sometimes...

Deborah Harkness never stops teaching. A historian, the 58-year-old Harkness holds forth at the University of Southern California, captivating her students with insights on European history and the history of...

Discovery could lead to targeted new treatments for aggressive cancer of the bone marrow CONTACT Zen Logsdon 626-409-9367 zlogsdon@coh.org  The return (i.e., homing) of leukemia stem cells (green) to the bone marrow microenvironment/niche (red) is substantially enhanced by low levels of TET2, at right, compared to the wild-type version of the gene. (Jianjun Chen Laboratory / City of Hope) FINDINGS Scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest...

Unlocking the genomic mysteries of cancer — that’s the lifelong passion that has driven the career of Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.  He’s the Eva and Ming Hsieh Family Director’s...

Trailblazing. Visionary. Highly innovative.  Those are the words the National Institutes of Health use to describe their High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which provides grants to scientists who are pushing the...

When Shirley Munoz discovered she had Stage 4 lung cancer, the K-pop fan and avid world traveler thought it was a bad joke. She was only 34 and a nonsmoker...

Heather Hampel, M.S., CGC, a veteran genetic counselor with nearly three decades’ experience, is driven by the memories of the lives she’s been able to help. And one she...

Christina Sherrill was your typical active Southern California teen, growing up in Simi Valley. “Cheerleading, dance, volleyball,” she recalled. “I was always doing something.” When she reached her 26th birthday...