Virginia Seery, RN, MSN, is a member of the KCA’s Clinical Advisory Board and sees patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. We spoke to Virginia about her work in the KCA and…
Last week, fans of the Buffalo Bills football team came together to honor former practice squad member Titus Davis, who died on November 11. Davis was 27 and had a rare, aggressive form of kidney…
Jan Jackson, RN is a member of the KCA’s Clinical Advisory Board and currently works at MD Anderson Cancer Center. We spoke to Jan about her work in the KCA and in medicine. How long…
John Fudala and Barbara Gerzonich came together over food and science. They both worked in public health – on the same floor of the same food safety office in New York state. John specialized in…
Craig Dowdy was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation at age 62. That meant regular checks for blood clots. During one such check, a tumor was found on Craig’s left kidney. Having never had any kidney cancer…
Megan Conley was diagnosed with chromophobe renal cell carcinoma in February 2020 and underwent surgery in March during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty. She shared her experience and her major learnings and takeaways in…
“I had been thinking of writing a voting song when one night I woke up with a tune in my head. I went to the piano and wrote it down. The words started to come…
Dr. Brandon Manley is a urologic oncologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. He received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for an “Investigation of the Aberrant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Splicing Proteome to…
Dr. Chiara Di Malta is a postdoctoral fellow at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Pozzuoli, Italy. She received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for her project, called “Exploiting the potential of MiT/TFE…
Dr. Ritesh Kotecha is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for his project “HLA Evolutionary Diversity – A Population Specific Biomarker for…
