50th Anniversary


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.

Milestones Through the Decades

View our timeline, marking 50 years of pioneering advances against cancer.

The 2010's Photo Slideshow

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    Kimmel Cancer Center Director William Nelson visits the Cancer Center's new Proton Therapy Center

     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Physicist Todd McNutt explains how proton therapy works
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Matthew Ladra, Director of pediatric radiation oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, brings proton therapy to pediatric cancer patients
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Jean Wright, Director of the Breast Cancer Program Radiation Oncology service explores proton therapy for breast cancer
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Our nurses started a curbside shot clinic during the COVID pandemic to care for patients and keep them safe
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    The COVID-19 pandemic rocks the US, and the Kimmel Cancer Center converts its GMP lab to a test kit facility
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    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.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Dr. Ted DeWeese, former director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences is named Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    The Convergence Institute opens under the leadership of Elizabeth Jaffee and Elana Fertig (pictured)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Physicist and inventor John Wong invented components of the proton therapy equipment used at the Kimmel Cancer Center
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Akila Visvanathan, Director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, announces the opening of the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    Greenspring Pavilion III opens

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    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