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Johns hopkins kimmel cancer center

Research in action

A miracle in her own backyard

Published March 10, 2025

NIH clinical trials are a lifeline for cancer patients like Baltimore native Vanessa, who received a groundbreaking immunotherapy treatment at the Kimmel Cancer Center

Medicine

Novel bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease

Published Feb 25, 2025

Trial at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and other centers finds reduced-intensity haploidentical bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease

Cancer

Microbes in breast tumors vary in women of different races

Published March 28, 2023

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found that the breast tumors of Asian, Black, and white women have very different cellular, microbial, and genomic features and could one day lead to personalized care

Bert Vogelstein and Ken Kinzler pose in a laboratory

Giants of the genome field

Published Spring 2022

Bert Vogelstein and Ken Kinzler continue their decadeslong search for cancer's elusive cure / Johns Hopkins Magazine

In memoriam

Radiation oncology pioneer dies at 77

Published Aug 21, 2018

During 40 years at Hopkins, Moody Wharam created refined treatments for pediatric cancers that improved survival rates and in some cases remain the standard of care today