Hematology and Oncology

Most Recent Bressler-Alpert Travel Award Goes to Sleep Medicine Fellow

Dr. Chithra Poongkunran

Chithra Poongkunran, MD, a fellow with the UA Sleep Medicine Fellowship in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has been presented with a Bressler-Alpert Society Travel Award to attend the American Thoracic Society International Meeting next month.

She's the third internal medicine trainee in 2018 and the sixth this academic year (2017-18) to receive awards. Overall, 42 trainees have received awards since the awards were first presented six years ago.

UA Cancer Researchers Push New Frontiers in Immunotherapy

Teaser image for UA Fast Forward - Medicine: Immunotherapy – Cancer's New Frontier

Drs. Daruka Mahadevan (left) and Eric Weterings examine cancer cells in a petri dish. Dr. Mahadevan is director of the UA Cancer Center Early Phase Clinical Trials Program. (All photos by Kris Hanning/UAHS, ABOR, BioCommunications, unless noted)

Your immune system never sleeps. Every moment of the day, immune cells monitor your body for disease, calling for backup when they detect a threat. It's a system that works elegantly — most of the time. It's not foolproof; if it were, we would never get cancer in the first place.

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