Category News and Announcements

Atul Gawande commends Dana-Farber Society in powerful speech

July 13, 2018

The 28th Annual Dana-Farber Society (DFS) Recognition Dinner was held at the Mandarin Oriental, Boston on May 8. The evening was dedicated to celebrating progress in cancer research and patient care made possible by the generosity of the Dana-Farber Society…

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Lisa Scherber honored for giving pediatric patients 25 years of Red Sox memories

January 26, 2018

Lisa Scherber is known as “The Play Lady” around the Jimmy Fund Clinic, but she could just as appropriately have been called “The Play Ball Lady” for the superstar attention she received alongside some of the biggest names in Boston…

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Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center to launch nation’s first tissue-screening program for immunotherapies

October 24, 2017

Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center (DF/BWCC) will become the first treatment center in the United States to routinely test patients’ tumor tissue to determine whether the cancer is likely to respond to immunotherapies. The testing, expected to begin in early…

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Singing the praises of Dana-Farber’s Unsung Heroes

August 18, 2017

Approaching the Dana-Farber building can feel a little overwhelming, but then you enter the parking garage and meet Jesus Urdaneta, one of the Dana-Farber Parking Valets. He offers you assistance getting out of your car, he might even greet you…

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Memorial gift creates fellowship to celebrate patient’s love of learning and discovery

June 23, 2017

Maureen Twomey had a lifelong love of learning. She was an avid reader, and had earned degrees from both Tufts University and Harvard University. She also would complete the notoriously difficult crossword puzzle in The New York Times, and enjoyed…

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Dana-Farber’s Dr. Kaelin wins prestigious Lasker Award

October 22, 2016

Dana-Farber physician-scientist William G. Kaelin, MD, has been named a winner of the 2016 Lasker Award along with two other scientists for groundbreaking basic research on how the body senses and adapts to changes in oxygen availability. The honor, which…

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Big Papi is a big hit for the Jimmy Fund

October 5, 2016

The teenagers were already having the time of their lives, walking on the sacred Fenway Park grass and meeting Red Sox players, when the exhilaration suddenly reached a new level. There, emerging like a rock star from the dugout, was…

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