Team Profile

American Friends of the Hebrew University Mid-Atlantic Region is proud to take part in the 2025 Bell Ringer Bike Race on behalf of GU LCCC!

Recognizing the power of education and research in preventing, treating, and advancing life-saving treatments, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Georgetown University have established the HUJI-GU Partnership for Global Cancer Research and Education: a joint initiative on cancer to amplify innovation, discovery, and action to end the disease.

The new collaboration follows more than a year of planning and brings together two universities steeped in science and discovery: Hebrew University, Israel’s premier institution of higher learning and research; and Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, and home to the federally-designated Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Lombardi is engaged in cancer research and education globally.

The goal of the new initiative is twofold. First, the collaboration aims to strengthen global cancer research and foster scientific cooperation. By expanding the footprint of the comprehensive cancer model to an international cooperative, the partnership furthers both institutions’ missions to conduct transformative research to advance health and well-being.
Second, the initiative will help foster the next generation of cancer researchers in the basic, translational/applied, clinical, epidemiologic, and public health sciences. Leaders from the two institutions will do this by identifying trainees (students and fellows) from each institution who will work for a period of time in the host lab, connecting collaborating research groups in each university. The trainees will be mentored by senior-level researchers, nurturing an interaction between institutions, setting the stage for future clinical translation.

“This international collaboration reflects a shared vision to establish collaboration in cancer research between renowned institutions with shared values focused on global outreach,” said Georgetown Lombardi’s Prof. Gary Kupfer, MD, who envisioned and spearheaded this initiative. “Its global community focus will thrive and is positioned to endure for years to come because of a critically important scientific collaboration focusing on the exchange of trainees for purposes of education and research.”

We invite you to join AFHU’s Team as a Bell Ringer and support the mission of GU LCCC!

https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/news-release/hebrew-university-and-georgetown-lombardi-establish-research-collaboration/