WPI end of the year letter

[Jemal]

The WPI posted an end of the year letter today. For me it contained some new information: the hiring of a new director of Cancer Biology and the involvement of Dr. Jamie Deckoff-Jones as an advisor:

http://www.wpinstitute.org/news/docs/069468WPIOnlineDonation.pdf

 

[shannah]

Thanks for posting Jemal.

Yes this is big news! Quoting from the newsletter

"Thanks to the continued support of friends like you we are able to create new collaborations with well
respected University researchers such as Dr. Sanford Barsky, Chair of the Pathology Department at the
University of Nevada. Dr. Barsky recently joined WPI as Director of Cancer Biology. His work will
focus on the numerous cancers found in patients who suffer from chronic neuro-immune diseases."

and this has previously been kept quiet as well:

"The month of August also brought a group of talented and experienced doctors and scientists to the
University campus for our first translational medical research symposium. Our conference resulted in
the creation of the WPI Clinical Advisory Board with Dr. Jamie Deckoff-Jones as its first Chair. In
addition to returning to the practice of medicine, Dr. Deckoff-Jones is sharing her medical knowledge of
neuro-immune disease with many others who are ill."