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Laurence and Jean DeLynn established the DeLynn Lecture Series in 1992 with an endowed gift to the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center. The purpose of the series is to provide educational and informational presentations in the area of cancer research, treatment, education and prevention.
Numerous speakers of national stature have lectured on the WVU campus thanks to the generosity of the DeLynns, including…
- 1993 Joe Kogel - a national award-winning writer who learned he had cancer at the age of 25
- 1994 Dr. Robert A. Good - one of the originators of bone marrow transplantation
- 1995 Dr. William R. Fair - Chief of Urologic Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 1997 Sam Donaldson - an ABC News correspondent and a melanoma cancer survivor
- 1998 Marlin Fitzwater - press secretary to Presidents Reagan and Bush
- 1999 Dr. Judy E. Garber - director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School
- 2000 Hamilton Jordan - former White House Chief of Staff for President Carter
- 2001 Robert Cooke - author of “Dr. Folkman’s War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer”
- 2002 Dr. Lance Liotta - Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute
- 2003 Jane Brody - medical journalist for the New York Times
- 2004 Dr. Bruce Chabner - Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- 2005 Dr. Michael Phelps - the inventor of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning technology
- 2006 MBRCC senior leadership - future growth of the Cancer Center
- 2007 Dr. Scot C. Remick - new director of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center; formerly the Lester E. Coleman, Jr. Chair in Cancer Research and Therapeutics, CASE Comprehensive Cancer Center
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