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Announcing the CBCC Summer 2026 Cancer Community Engagement Award
A Joint Initiative of the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (CBCC) and the Center for Community and Global Health (CCGH)
The Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (CBCC), in collaboration with the Center for Community and Global Health (CCGH) at the Stritch School of Medicine, is pleased to announce the Summer 2026 Cancer Community Engagement Award for medical students enrolled in the CCGH program. The program is designed to foster early engagement in oncology-related community outreach, health equity, and cancer prevention initiatives.
The following rising M2 students have been selected for the Summer 2026 Cancer Community Engagement award.
Meghan Coleman - Do Pre-Surgical Clearance Protocols Improve Outcomes? A Comparative Analysis of Breast, Colorectal, and Melanoma Cancer Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center and the Krystyna Kiel Oncology Center
CBCC Faculty Mentor: Erin Strong, MD, MBA, MPH, Department of Surgery
Maureen Desmond - Understanding the Utility of Ultrasound and MRI for Axillary Lymph Node Staging and its Extensibility to a Limited-Resource Setting
CBCC Faculty Mentor: Chantal Reyna, MD, Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology
Samantha Mallahan - Optimizing Post Therapy Breast Cancer Surveillance Imaging at Loyola and Comparing Surveillance Patterns and Outcomes in a Resource Limited Setting
CBCC Faculty Mentor: Tamer Refaat, MD PhD MSCI - Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
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Announcing the 2026-2027 CBCC Seed Grants
The following FY27 Cancer Center Pilot Seed Grants have been awarded:
Edward Campbell, PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology & Immunology
Spatiotemporal Mapping of Inflammasome Activation and Senescent Cell Contributions in Cancer
Wei Qiu, PhD, Professor, Surgery
Overcome LZTR1 loss-induced lenvatinib resistance in liver cancer
Jonathan Rennhack, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
Uncovering Epigenetic Vulnerabilities in CRC Metastasis through SATB1-SOX2 Synergy
Derek Wainwright, PhD, Associate Professor, Cancer Biology
Neutralizing extracellular IDO effects in glioblastoma