Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP, Andrew Hyland, PhD, Maansi Bansal-Travers, PhD, MS, and Maciej Goniewicz, PhD, PharmD have all been identified as influential researchers on Clarivate Plc’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2021.

Recognizing his steadfast dedication to his patients and their care, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer has promoted Steven Nurkin, MD, MS, FACS, to Chief of Colorectal Surgery.

In 1873, Russian doctor J. von Rusitzky coined the term “multiple myeloma” after finding eight different types of bone marrow tumors in a single patient. Nearly 150 years later, using advanced cell sequencing technology and state-of-the-art imaging techniques, researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have provided a molecular and biological explanation for this finding, discovering that different myeloma clones can be present in a single patient and linking these distinct genetic changes in myeloma cells to the development of myeloma bone disease.

It’s just 60 seconds long, but explains a lifetime of dedication. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s local television commercial, “My Why,” which will air in the Buffalo market during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 13, shares the very personal motivation that has driven a Roswell Park genetics expert to commit her life to cancer research.