About 500 people are expected at the Overture Center tonight for the formal renaming of the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center after the late Paul Carbone, a researcher who will also be honored this week at a new hospice care facility.
The former cancer center director came to UW in 1976 and led the center for 18 years. He was known for innovations in research and patient care, including developing a chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. That helped him win the Lasker Award in Medicine, considered this country’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.