Press Releases

Thursday, February 3, 2011
BUFFALO, NY — The sharp reduction in New York State support for Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) included in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2011-2012 budget is a cut of nearly one-third of the public-benefit corporation’s state allocation this year. A decrease of that magnitude... Read more
Monday, January 31, 2011
BUFFALO, NY — Foluso Ademuyiwa, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), has received a $130,000 grant from the Avon Foundation for Women to study the relationship between cancer testis antigens and an aggressive form of breast... Read more
Thursday, January 27, 2011
America’s first cancer center is still leading the fight to understand, prevent and cure cancer — and the nation heard that message from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. “Buffalo gave our nation and the world cancer research when the New York Cancer... Read more
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Unprecedented Documentary Compilation to Debut at Sundance Film Festival Thursday BUFFALO, NY — “Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens,” read the text of the ad on YouTube. “Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these... Read more
Monday, January 24, 2011
WNY students in grades five through eight invited to "How Big is Your Heart Dance" Read more
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s 2011 Hematologic Oncology Review was held Saturday, January 15 in RPCI’s Research Studies Center, Carlton Street at Elm Street, Buffalo. This half-day Continuing Medical Education seminar was coordinated by Kelvin Lee, MD, Jacobs Family Chair in... Read more
Monday, January 10, 2011
BUFFALO, NY - Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has become the first institution in the United States to be accredited as a Training Institute in Robot-Assisted Surgery by the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU). The accreditation allows RPCI to participate in the SIU... Read more
Monday, January 10, 2011
By Charity Vogel NEWS STAFF REPORTER, The Buffalo News Cancer can be a deeply lonely place -- and no one knows that better than people who have faced it. "Everything changes. Your world crashes down," said Ken Metzger, 55, a Clarence husband and father who is eight years past... Read more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
BUFFALO — The African-American Roswell Employee Network at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) invites Western New Yorkers to join us for A Community Gathering: A Celebration of the Life & Times of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to be held Friday, January 14 from 4 p.m. to... Read more