News & Accolades
Jiwang Lee, college student, examines data in the KeyHunt Lab at MD Anderson.
2024 News & Media
June 2024
Kelly K. Hunt, M.D., contributed to a Health Central article titled, ""
May 2024
Kelly K. Hunt, M.D., contributed to Health Central for three articles titled, "", "" and ""
March 2024
Kelly K. Hunt, M.D., is featured in Cancerwise in an article titled, "Atypical ductal hyperplasia: What it is and how it's treated"
February 2024
Kelly K. Hunt, M.D., and Khandan Keyomarsi, Ph.D., were awarded a $5.99 million grant from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program for their project: ¡°Advancing our Understanding of Metastatic Breast Cancer Through Development of a Comprehensive Research Platform.¡±
2023 News & Media
December 2023
Kelly K. Hunt, M.D., was featured in an OncLive article titled, "."
March 2023
The Keyomarsi-Hunt lab has published an article titled, in Cancer Research.
March 2023
has been named President of the .
2021 News & Media
April 2021
Kelly Hunt, M.D., and the Keyomarsi/Hunt laboratory received Adverse Event Bridge Funding to complete vital breast cancer research interrupted by COVID-19.
Bridge funding supports researchers amid COVID-19
2020 News & Media
July 2020
The American College of Surgeons launched the Cancer Surgery Standards Program to standardize specific techniques for cancer surgery and bring uniformity to the way professionals document and communicate operative data. Vice Chair Kelly Hunt, M.D., is leading this initiative with Matthew Katz, M.D., from Surgical Oncology to improve the quality of surgical care for all cancer patients.
May 2020?
Congrats to Sofia Mastoraki, TRIUMPH postdoctoral fellow in KeyHunt Lab, for receiving the Ben F. Love Fellowship in Innovative Cancer Therapies Recognition of Research Excellence Award for contributions to cancer research and education.?
May 2020
Congrats to Tuyen Duong Thanh Nguyen, postdoctoral fellow in KeyHunt Lab, for receiving the Daniel Benedict Gazan Fellowship in Sarcoma Research Award in Recognition of Research Excellence.
2019 News & Media
September 2019
Kelly Hunt, M.D.,?contributed to U.S. News & World Report for a story titled "A Patient's Guide to Surgery."
May 2019
Congrats to Nicole M. Kettner, Ph.D., TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Fellow in the KeyHunt Laboratory, for winning the 2019 Ben F. Love Fellowship in Innovative Cancer Therapies at the MD Anderson Trainee Research Day.
Nicole is pictured with other awardees and Dr. Diane Bodurka, Vice President for Education at MD Anderson.
May 2019
Congrats to Amriti Lulla, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the KeyHunt Laboratory for receiving a 2019 Sheskey Family Fellowship in Breast Cancer Research at the MD Anderson Trainee Research Day.
Amriti is pictured with Dr. Diane Bodurka, Vice President for Education at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
May 2019
Congrats to Kari Brewer Savannah, Ph.D., Program Manager of the CPRIT Research Training Program, for her 2019 Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology Employee Performance Award.
May 2019
Congrats to Tuyen Bui, Research Investigator in the KeyHunt Lab, for his 2019 Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology Employee Performance Award.
May 2019
Dr. Hunt is featured in Cancerwise: HER2-positive breast cancer survivor: I believe in MD Anderson.
April 2019
Dr. Hunt is featured in Cancerwise: 5 things newly diagnosed breast cancer patients should know
2018 News & Media
August 2018
Dr. Hunt is featured in Cancerwise: Inflammatory breast cancer survivor: Why I give back to MD Anderson
2017 News & Media
December 2017
Dr. Hunt was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of her contributions to basic, translational and clinical research.
Dr. Hunt was honored for "practice-changing breast cancer research involving sentinel lymph node biopsy, breast conservation, novel surgical staging systems, contralateral mastectomy, skin-sparing mastectomy and quality outcome measures."
September 2017
Dr. Hunt is featured in Cancerwise: Two-time breast cancer survivor is grateful for treatment innovations
July 2017
Dr. Keyomarsi was recognized for her research to identify biomarkers to predict response to breast cancer treatment.
April 2017
Dr. Hunt is featured in Cancerwise: Using my voice during breast cancer treatment
March 2017
Dr. Keyomarsi was recognized for her research on the use of cyclin E staining for detecting breast cancer survival. The article appeared in the 2017 March edition of Cancer Frontline.