Florida Cancer Specialists’ Research Presented at ASCO’s Annual Meeting
- FLASCO
- June 9, 2016
- News
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) announced that there were a record 26 presentations co-authored by FCS physicians that were presented at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, held in Chicago, IL, June 3 – 7, 2016. The ASCO annual meeting is the largest gathering of oncologists in the world. This year’s theme is “Collective Wisdom: The Future of Patient-Centered Care and Research” and the meeting featured an address by Vice-President Joe Biden on the “Cancer Moonshot Initiative,” which was outlined in President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress in January.
19 of the FCS co-authored presentations were from research done through the FCS Phase 1 Drug Development Unit (DDU) in Sarasota, FL, led by Dr. Manish Patel, Director of Drug Development Sarasota, and Dr. Judy Wang. Additional FCS physician investigators included Drs. Patrick Acevedo, Ahmed Al-Hazzouri, Jennifer Cultrera, Lowell Hart (FCS Scientific Director of Clinical Research), Maen Hussein, Vasundhara Iyengar, Michael McCleod, James Reeves, Pablo Reyes, Frank Rodriguez, Sandeep Thaper, Marays Veliz and Robert Whorf (FCS Director of Research Operations).
