Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Podcasts

Dr Bill Nelson talks with Dr Elana Fertig about her genomic research and the use of mathematical modeling to fight cancer, as well as Chaos theory and her previous experience with weather prediction.

Dr Nelson talks with Dr Mark Yarchoan and Alex Hopkins about how cancer cells evade the immune system and what researchers are doing to combat that with targeted immunotherapies.

Dr Nelson and biologist, Dr Andrew Ewald, discuss the science of fighting cancer at the cellular level.   

Dr Ben Levy, the Director of Medical Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC, begins his podcast series talking with Rasheda Persinger, and Nurse Practitioner at Sibley. They discuss the key role of Advanced Practice Providers in delivering care to cancer patients and helping them navigate the path to recovery.

Dr Bill Nelson, the Director of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center talks with Dr Ted DeWeese, Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, about proton therapy and the new proton center that will come online at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC in the Fall of 2019. 

Dr Bill Nelson, Director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive at Johns Hopkins, talks with Dr Elizabeth Jaffee, the new President of the American Association for Cancer Research, about her agenda for the next year.