Outpace Cancer is family-friendly and benefits cancer research and patient services at Stephenson Cancer Center.

Sunscreen stations provided by Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine will be a familiar sight during the fall University of Oklahoma football season, which opens Sunday, Sept.1.

Deepa Sathyaseelan, Ph.D., recently received a $1.6 million grant to further her investigations into the role of inflammation in both aging and age-related diseases like cancer. The grant is from the National Institute on Aging, a component of the National Institutes of Health.

OU Medicine is the No. 1 ranked hospital system in Oklahoma, and its oncology program at Stephenson Cancer Center and OU Medical Center ranked in the Top 50 in the nation, in the 2019-2020 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. This achievement makes OU Medicine, which includes OU Medical Center, Stephenson Cancer Center, The Children’s Hospital, OU Physicians, OU Medical Center Edmond and the OU Health Sciences Center the only healthcare system in Oklahoma to currently hold a national ranking, and it marks the first time in state history that a cancer care program has earned a national ranking. For OU Medicine, the achievement comes a little over a year after becoming a locally owned, nonprofit healthcare system and a year after earning the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation at Stephenson Cancer Center, which is held by only 2% of cancer centers in the country.

Dr. Emily Hébert, a post-doctoral fellow at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine, has received a highly competitive federal grant that will launch her research career focused on using mobile technology for tobacco cessation.