University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center

06/13/2026

Carlo Caballero, LPC, CCM, of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, has been named in the seventh annual Cancer Health 25 feature dedicated to financial helpers and fundraisers!

See the full statement here: https://bit.ly/4vASihS

06/12/2026

CU Anschutz Cancer member and Assistant Professor of Urology, Jeff Morrison, MD, shares how both cancer and treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation affect male fertility. Click the link in our first comment to read this Q&A.

06/11/2026

Introducing two new endowed chairs: the Dudley Family Endowed Chair in Cancer Excellence, with Jon Vogel, MD, serving as the chairholder; and the Dudley Family Rising Star Endowed Chair, with Michael Oliphant, PhD, named as the inaugural chairholder!

The Dudley family has been a steadfast advocate of the CU Anschutz Cancer Center for over three decades, supporting key efforts as it has grown in size, reputation, and expertise. The family's latest philanthropic investment has helped create these two new endowed chairs. This gift brings the total number of endowed chairs created by the Dudley family to four.

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Department of Physiology and Biophysics

06/11/2026

Diana Cittelly, PhD, would tell her former self to work hard, be patient with yourself, and seek out mentors early. Stay close to patient voices, as they help keep your purpose clear through challenges.

06/10/2026

You too can become a superstar this World Cup! ⭐ CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Christopher Lieu, MD, and Swati Patel, MD, share their knowledge so you can reduce your colorectal cancer risk.

06/09/2026

“We are definitely leaders in this area,” says James DeGregori, PhD, interim director of the CU Anschutz Cancer Center, in this cover story for the Spring 2026 issue of the C3 magazine.

Click the link in our first comment to read about how the team science approach at the CU Anschutz Cancer Center is leading to new treatments and new hope for patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

06/08/2026

CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Associate Director of Basic Research, Heide Ford, PhD, has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Lectureship Award for her work studying how cancer cells change their physical state.

“We're interested in tumor cell plasticity and how tumor cells can respond to their environment, as the microenvironment changes for the tumor cells as they escape from the primary site and move to distant regions of the body,” says Ford.

Click the link in our first comment to read more.

06/07/2026

"There are two participants in every clinical trial, the researchers overseeing the investigation, and the patients who volunteer to take part, often in a selfless move to improve outcomes down the road for others with the cancer for which they are being treated," says Medical Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Office Jennifer Diamond, MD.

For , read more about how clinical trials help increase cancer survivorship: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-center/clinical-trials-increase-cancer-survivorship

06/05/2026

is observed annually on the first Sunday in June to honor those who have survived cancer, to celebrate their life, while still bringing awareness of the ongoing challenges these survivors face.

We've gathered patient stories from over the last year to show that survivorship is not a single milestone but an ongoing, evolving experience: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-center/survivors-day-2026

06/04/2026

With the CU Anschutz Office of Advancement, Norm Taylor created the Katie Taylor Memorial Endowed Chair in Gynecologic Oncology, which will fund the work of chairholder and CU Anschutz Cancer Center member Bradley Corr, MD, a leader in gynecologic oncology whose research focuses on personalized treatments for uterine cancer.

Read more about Taylor and his desire to honor the memory of his late wife, Katie, through the creation of this endowed chair ⬇️

Cancer center benefactor Norm Taylor established an endowed chair, named for his late wife, Katie, to advance uterine cancer research.