Beverly Wolfer’s professional career spans the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Beverly worked in banking at Riggs National Bank and management consulting with Booz Allen & Hamilton. She sits on the Board of The Jewish Welfare Board, JCCA and is the President of a family foundation dedicated to supporting our Troops. Beverly received her B.B.A. from The George Washington University and her M.B.A. from The Darden School, University of Virginia.
Charles “Chip” Landen, MD is a gynecologic oncologist and an Associate Professor in the Gynecologic Oncology Division at the University of Virginia and the Associate Leader of the Women’s Oncology Program at the UVA Cancer Center.
Dr. Landen received his MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Medical University of South Carolina and his fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
As a Tina’s Wish 2017/18 funded researcher, Dr. Landen has shown that DNA from ovarian cancer cells within the peritoneal cavity (the area that contains the abdominal organs) can be detected in the discharge collected on a tampon specimen after being placed overnight in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. Dr. Landen’s lab is performing experiments to see if this noninvasive method can be used for detection of early-stage, or even premalignant, ovarian cancer.
Project Title: “Integration of Advanced Genomic and Bioengineering Approaches for Early Detection and Prevention of Ovarian Cancer”
Tina’s Wish is honored to present its second Consortium Grant to this cutting edge team of researchers who will collaborate together for the next three years.
Project Title: “Deciphering the mechanisms and relevance of replication stress in ovarian cancer precursor cells”
Dr. Hill is a gynecologic pathologist and an independent investigator at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Project Title: “The Role of Ciliated Cells in Preventing Fallopian Tube Cancer Initiation”
Dr. Recouvreux is a postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
