Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

12/18/2025

ICYMI: our 38th Annual Lombardi Gala is moving to the iconic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 1301 Constitution Ave NW.

Meet Us at the Mellon this March 🪩

12/15/2025

May the hope brought by the light of Hanukkah illuminate darkness and be a source of comfort and renewed resilience. Wishing our friends in the Jewish community peace now and always.

12/12/2025

BE THE BREAKTHROUGH
Each year, we join together to celebrate the achievements in the fight against cancer. This year’s 38th Annual Lombardi Gala promises to be a moving tribute to the bold ideas, relentless progress, and shared hope our community fuels every day. Join us on Saturday, March 14th, 2026 at our new venue, the elegant Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.

There are so many ways to get involved – become a sponsor, join our Champions Circle, make a gift. Visit lombardigala.georgetown.edu to learn more or send us a chat today! 💬

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12/10/2025

In the spirit of the season, we want to take a moment and highlight our amazing community–those dedicated to supporting live-saving cancer research at through inspirational and impactful events.

Get to know us! 👋

• The Lombardi Gala: our signature, black-tie fundraising event ✨ 2026 details coming very soon ✨

• : one of the largest nonprofit funders of pediatric cancer research in the country, who have generously supported Georgetown Lombardi for over two decades.

• : DC area professionals connecting for a cure for breast cancer through mission-driven programming that honors researchers, patients, survivors and supporters.

• Lombardi Men’s Event: advancing awareness for cancers affecting men through intimate conversations with Lombardi researchers and community leaders like NFL Hall of Famer

• Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture: inspired by cura personalis, or care of the whole person, our annual lecture series is shining a light on cura personalis in action.

12/01/2025

As the world marks World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, world-renowned infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, MD, and his colleague Greg Folkers, MS, MPH, highlight advances made in the treatment and prevention of HIV that could finally end the pandemic, but caution, “History will judge us harshly should we squander this opportunity.”

Read about their commentary: https://medicine.georgetown.edu/news-releases/treatment-and-prevention-of-hiv-aids-unfinished-business/

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! We wish all those observing a joyful and restorative holiday.

11/11/2025

Georgetown honors its veteran and military-connected community by celebrating their stories and focusing on service and research related to their well-being.

11/06/2025

We celebrated hope, progress and community at the 19th annual Lombardi Women event! More than 460 physicians, nurses, researchers, patients, survivors and supporters came together to honor lives touched by breast cancer and to reinforce our commitment to ending this disease.

“Tonight, we’re all cancer researchers. Tonight, we’re all taking care of cancer patients. And tonight, we’re going to do something about breast cancer,” said Dr. Louis Weiner, Georgetown Lombardi director.

With their support, we are raising not just funds, but hope and driving precision, prevention, early detection and survivorship for breast cancer.

A heartfelt thank you to every supporter, patient, caregiver and research team member who helps power our mission.

At the 19th annual Lombardi Women event, more than 460 attendees gathered to celebrate the doctors, nurses, researchers, patients, survivors and supporters engaged in the fight against breast cancer and show their support for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only N...

11/03/2025

This November during Jesuit Heritage Month, explore and celebrate Georgetown’s Jesuit history and traditions that bring together distinguished faculty and special guests in events and activities focused on the work of the Jesuits, both around the world and here at Georgetown. https://bit.ly/4oQgpWH

11/03/2025

Georgetown University joins the nation in commemorating Native American Heritage Month each November. https://bit.ly/48OJNI9

10/15/2025

“What an exciting time, and I am truly delighted with the election of Eduardo Peñalver, J.D. as our next Georgetown University president. I have great confidence and faith in President-elect Peñalver’s leadership particularly at this remarkable time in the history of higher education in the U.S. President-elect Peñalver and I share in the belief that great achievements are possible when we seek the common good as a community to ensure hope, health, and healing for all.” - Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., MD, MHS, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences

Eduardo M. Peñalver, the president of Seattle University and former dean of Cornell Law School, will be the next president of Georgetown.

10/15/2025

Georgetown’s board of directors has unanimously voted to name Eduardo M. Peñalver, the president of Seattle University, a Rhodes Scholar and former dean of Cornell Law School, as the 49th president of Georgetown University. He will begin his new role on July 1, 2026.

Peñalver has served as the 22nd president of Seattle University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution, since 2021. He was the first layperson to lead the university since its founding in 1891.

Peñalver will succeed Interim President Robert M. Groves, who has led Georgetown for the past year after former President John J. DeGioia stepped down from his role in 2024 to recover from a stroke.

“We are pleased to welcome Eduardo Peñalver to Georgetown University,” said Thomas A. Reynolds (B’74), chair of the board of directors. “President Peñalver is an exceptional leader steeped in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition who brings a wealth of experience in higher education, a global mindset, a commitment to social justice and academic excellence, and a bold vision for Georgetown’s future. We look forward to him joining our Georgetown community.”

Prior to Seattle University, Peñalver served as the dean of Cornell Law School and clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He studied philosophy and theology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and law degree from Yale Law School.

Read more: https://bit.ly/42J5FAO