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Locals honor Dr. John Penta, 1953
graduate of the Barnes School and section chief of the National
Institutes of Health
Dr. John Penta visits his old neighborhood to receive award.
DR. JOHN PENTA
On Wednesday, October 21, friends gathered at the Barnes School
housing development to honor Dr. John Penta where they unveiled a
photograph that will hang in the elderly housing complex.
Dr. John Penta was for 25 years, a section of Chief of the National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In addition, he was Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine in the
Department of Medicine Division of Medical Oncology at Duke
University of School of Medicine.
Dr. Penta was involved in clinical research studies evaluating
experimental treatments in very sick cancer patients who has short
life expectancy and in whom conventional treatment options were
exhausted. He was part of national team that developed an active
chemotherapy regimen for osteogenic sarcoma in children and young
adults in the late 70’s.
He also contributed to research that allowed adults and children
cancer patients to be safely treated with investigational anticancer
drugs that had not previously been administered to human subjects.
Dr. Penta has published 60 research articles in scientific/medical
journals, has been a visiting lecturer at 12 universities in the
United States, three others in Europe, and presented clinical
research data to more than 100 cancer research organizations in the
United States and 10 foreign countries.
CDC President Al Calderelli presents framed photo of
Dr. Penta.
His major research interests are breast cancer in women and prostate
cancer in men, and the signaling mechanisms used by cells to become
cancer.
Dr. Penta earned his PhD from Purdue University, completed a
24-month oncology training program doing research with cancer
patients at the National Cancer Institute, studied oncology and did
research at Johns Hopkins University Oncology Center over a four
year period, and did further oncology studies at Duke University
Cancer Center.
Dr. Penta is a graduate of the Barnes Middle School Class of 1953.
John White speaks of Dr. Penta's East Boston roots.
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