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Throughout the year, we will review the history of our Cancer Center and look back at the many scientific breakthroughs discovered at Johns Hopkins.

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50th Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

2023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Watch our video of groundbreaking advancements we've made throughout the last five decades.

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The 2010's Photo Slideshow

Kimmel Cancer Center Director William Nelson visits the Cancer Center's new Proton Therapy Center
Physicist Todd McNutt explains how proton therapy works
Matthew Ladra, Director of pediatric radiation oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, brings proton therapy to pediatric cancer patients
Jean Wright, Director of the Breast Cancer Program Radiation Oncology service explores proton therapy for breast cancer
Our nurses started a curbside shot clinic during the COVID pandemic to care for patients and keep them safe
The COVID-19 pandemic rocks the US, and the Kimmel Cancer Center converts its GMP lab to a test kit facility
The Kimmel Cancer Center collaborates with Unity Health Care to bring cancer screening and care to people living in underserved areas of Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ted DeWeese, former director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences is named Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Convergence Institute opens under the leadership of Elizabeth Jaffee and Elana Fertig (pictured)
Physicist and inventor John Wong invented components of the proton therapy equipment used at the Kimmel Cancer Center
Akila Visvanathan, Director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, announces the opening of the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center
Greenspring Pavilion III opens
Ashani Weeraratna joins the Kimmel Cancer Center as Co-Director of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis program
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Curtiland DeVille, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center

News Release2020's

Celebrating 50 Years: The 2020s mark continued advances in technology that speed progress against cancer. In 2023, the Kimmel Cancer celebrates its 50th anniversary and releases a special issue of Promise & Progress to chronicle its history.

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50th Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

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The 2010's Photo Slideshow

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