TWiPo #59 ~ Interview with Dr. Sajid Qureshi

Host Dr. Timothy Cripe and co-Host Nilay Shah interview Dr. Sajid Qureshi, a professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India. Dr. Qureshi is an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Pediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO). In this episode Dr. Qureshi provides a fascinating, first-hand glimpse into the successes and challenges of delivering quality care to larger, as well as remote, pediatric cancer populations. The episode concludes with Dr. Qureshi's thoughts on how international research collaboration could provide access to relapsed children worldwide.

TWiPO #58 ~ Interview with Dr. Damon Reed

TWiPO Host Dr. Timothy Cripe, with co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah and Dr. Bhuvana Setty welcome Dr. Damon Reed, Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Program at Moffitt Cancer Center and Leader of the Pediatric Cancer Foundation's pediatric phase I consortium, the Sunshine Project. Dr. Reed shares his view points on how we can improve and accelerate the current trajectory with regard to pediatric therapy development. 

TWIPO # 57 Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor

TWIPO hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children's Hospital) along with guest
host Dr. Ryan Roberts (Nationwide Children's Hospital), interview Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor who is a Professor of Pediatric
Oncology at University of Michigan and the Director of the Cancer Biology
Training Program at University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Lawlor, a Ewing Sarcoma specialist, discusses
new approaches to the cellular eco-system of tumors and provides commentary on the growing
landscape for women in science.

TWIPO #56 ~ Interview with Dr. Mark Hatley

On today's podcast, TWIPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host Dr. Ryan Roberts (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. Mark Hatley (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital). Dr. Hatley discusses how he got into the field of Biological Chemistry in Oncology. Also Dr. Hatley gives an indepth explaination about his research in G-Proteins.

TWiPO #55 ~ Interview with Dr. Chrystal Louis

On this episode of TWiPO podcast Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Keri A. Streby (Nationwide Children's Hospital) interview Dr. Chrystal Louis (Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine.) Dr. Louis talks to the hosts about her role in both the academic and industry side of oncology. 

TWiPO #54 ~ Interview with Dr. Kim Kramer

On today's TWiPO Podcast host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. Kim Kramer (Pediatric Oncologist of Memorial Sloan Kettering.) In this interview they discuss a new cutting edge therapy for treating brain tumors, which involves targeting the tumor intravenously just like any other tumor.

TWiPO #53 ~ Interview with Linda McAllister-Lucas

On today's podcast TWiPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-hosts, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) Interview Dr. Linda McAllister-Lucas (Chief of Service, Hematology/Oncology of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In their discussion Dr. McAllister-Lucas talks about her research on MALT1 Lymphoma and how this research could advance the field of oncology 

TWIPO #52 ~ Interview with Dr. James Geller

On this TWiPO episode hosts, Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. James Geller (Medical Director at Kidney and Liver Tumors Program, Co-Medical Director at Retinoblastoma Program, Associate Director at Global Cancer Programs, Associate Professor at UC Department of Pediatrics.) Dr. James Geller was one of the original TWiPO members back in 2010. Today Dr. Geller talks about the battle to get access to potential drugs (Ex. Lorvotuzumab [IMGN901]) that can be beneficial to treating pediatric cancers.

TWIPO #49 ~ Interview With Dr. Robin Norris

TWiPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and TWiPO co-host Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Robin Norris, MD, who is a pediatric oncologist and the Director of the Pediatric Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. Dr. Norris discusses the struggles that adolescents and young adult with cancer face and discusses her involvement in creating an antibody against TEM-1 in order to stop the metastasis of tumors.

TWIPO #34 ~Interview With Dr. Nancy Ratner

November
14, 2013
New York, NY -- This Week in Pediatric Oncology
(TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, announced
that Nancy Ratner, PhD, is a featured guest on its most recent episode, In this
episode, Dr. Ratner speaks with host Dr. Tim Cripe (Nationwide Children's
Hospital) and co-host Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children's Hospital).
Dr. Ratner is interested in understanding
mechanisms of peripheral nerve tumor (neurofibroma) formation in
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a common inherited disorder in which children
are predisposed to cancer of the nervous system, to learning problems, bone
disorders, and other cancers. She identified EGFR as a potential therapeutic
target in NF1 peripheral nerve tumorigenesis, and has developed cell culture
and mouse models of NF1 nerve tumorigenesis. Her laboratory has also used
analysis of gene expression to identify critical genes in neurofibroma and
their malignant derivatives, MPNST.

Dr. Ratner is currently a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital, University of Cincinnati, and the program leader for
Cancer Biology and Neural Tumors Program in the Cancer and Blood Disorders
Institute where she holds the Beatrice C. Lampkin Endowed Chair in Cancer
Biology and serves as PI of the NINDS P50 “Cincinnati Center in NF Research.”