Hale Family Pledges Transformational $50 Million Gift

July 15, 2021

We are incredibly grateful for the Hale’s continuing partnership in advancing pancreatic cancer research and clinical care. With this transformational $50 million gift – one of the largest single gifts Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has received – Judith B. Hale, her son Robert T. Hale Jr., and his wife, Karen Hale…

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An Army of Investigators

November 25, 2019

Drs. Wolpin, Aguirre and Kimberly Perez, along with Tyler Jacks, Director of the Koch Institute contributed to the “Let’s Win Survivor Series”. Read the full story on “An Army of Investigators” and view the video here.  

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World Pancreatic Cancer Day

November 21, 2019

Today is World Pancreatic Cancer Day! At the Hale Center we took the opportunity to wear purple to commemorate the occasion. We believe in raising awareness and demanding better treatments for pancreatic cancer.

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Hale Center outside speaker: Will Hwang

November 15, 2019

We were fortunate to have Will Hwang, M.D., Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Tyler Jack’s and Aviv Regev’s labs at MIT) as an outside speaker today for Hale Center meeting. He gave a great presentation on single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) to identify new cell populations in pancreatic cancer.

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Congratulations to Tom Clancy!

November 14, 2019

Congratulations to Tom Clancy, M.D. who was awarded the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation. Tom is co-leader of the Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s Pancreatic Cancer Center and works tirelessly for his patients. In addition, Tom is a fantastic Hale Center collaborator providing critical translational insights and clinical samples…

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