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 new NPR series, “Throw It Back,” explores how the objects we love as kids shape our worldview as adults. The series begins with the story of Dr.

<b>Mahlet Assefa</b>, fellow (Nephrology) and her cotton dress. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assefa lived in Northern Ethiopia until she was 9 years

 old, when her family moved to the U.S.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Her mom

 had made her a traditional Ethiopian dress (habesha kemis) for her first birthday which she loved. When she was an adult and about to attend medical school, her mom gave her this dress, which she brought with her across the water, across the country, and kept

 with her for all these years.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286">

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Wow, this dress is sort of a physical embodiment of

 the ways in which I've been loved and I am loved,” said Assefa. “There are a lot of different ways in which the world has tried and continues to try to define me. And I think what the dress sort of allows me to do is to say, actually, no, I get to sort of

 anchor myself in all the beautiful things that made me. I could really go anywhere, and I could really do anything and then still come home and be loved and be cared for.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New associate program director, Boise Addiction Medicine

 Fellowship Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>

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 Hsiu </b>has been named the new associate program director for the UW Boise Addiction Medicine Fellowship, effective November 1, 2024. She is the program's first associate program director.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A graduate of the UW Boise Psychiatry Residency in the

 advanced clinician track and the UW Boise Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Hsiu specializes in addiction medicine at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is also the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the UW Boise Psychiatry Residency.

 She is passionate about working with individuals struggling with mental illness and addiction as well as health humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The

</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"></span></span></span><a href="https://uwboiseaddiction.uw.edu/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">UW

 Boise Addiction Medicine program</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

 is a one-year program that strives to provide a unique and collaborative approach to education in the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders through a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and residential treatment programs that will prepare trainees

 to provide an evidence-based and multi-disciplinary approach to the field of Addiction Medicine.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Program faculty include physicians from internal medicine,

 family medicine and psychiatry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Mohamed Sorror</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) will present the keynote address, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Strategies for Collaborative Study and Reduction of Toxicities” at the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

 International Conference on Toxicities of Transplantation and Cellular Therapies.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Breast Sexual Health Clinic

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 Breast Sexual Health Clinic at Fred Hutch Cancer Center opened earlier this year to support patients with sexual health and intimacy during and after breast cancer treatment. “I’ve always loved working with breast cancer patients,” said

<b>Kelly Nelson</b>, teaching associate (Hematology and Oncology), who leads the clinic. “As the years went on, I found myself increasingly drawn to opportunities for helping our patients find enjoyment in life, even while undergoing treatment. This clinic

 is a great way to do that.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Breast Cancer Research Foundation grants</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Nancy Davidson</b>, professor and head (Hematology and Oncology) received funding

</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">for a new research project aimed at expanding

 the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat breast cancers.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr.

<b>Mary (Nora) Disis</b>, professor (Hematology and Oncology) received funding </span>

</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">to continue her work on ADVac, an adipose directed vaccine

 to address the role of obesity in promoting breast cancer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr.

<b>Mary-Claire King</b>, professor (Medical Genetics) received funding to adapt rapidly evolving genomic technology to sequence large swaths of DNA in single very long strands, rather than thousands of short bits, and to explore dysregulation of gene expression

 as a basis for inherited breast cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr.

<b>Hannah Linden</b>, professor (Hematology and Oncology) </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">will

 continue investigating whether a PET/CT progesterone tracer known as FFNP (short for 21 [18F] fluorofuranylnorprogesterone) can better predict response to endocrine therapy coupled with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib, or Verzenio.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Drs. Christopher Li and Anne McTiernan (Epidemiology)

 also received BCRF grants. </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk178334286"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">London-Seattle collaboration to find new therapies

 for prostate cancer<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>

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 prostate cancer, which has spread beyond the prostate to other parts of the body, remains notoriously elusive and resourceful when it’s attacked, resisting surgery and drugs that interrupt a vital hormonal supply chain that tumors need to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When treatments block the flow of testosterone, the cancer inevitably finds molecular workarounds

 that re-establish the supply chain, triggering more runaway tumor growth that hastens death. Therapies have mostly targeted the beginning and middle of the supply chain with initial success for patients. However, resistance is inevitable within the most lethal

 forms of the disease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the Institute of Cancer Research in London just

 received a $1 million grant from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to focus on the last links of the supply chain, a process called mRNA translation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Andrew Hsieh</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk174716130"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Recent publications<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></span></p>