DAVID WEINER was named executive vice president of The Wistar Institute, director of the Vaccine Center, and the W. W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. Weiner will also contribute tumor immunology-focused research as a professor in Wistar’s Translational Tumor Immunology program. Previously, Weiner was a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University...
In recent months, several directors of cancer centers, appearing on The Directors, a segment of The Cancer Letter Podcast, mentioned that their institutions are increasingly providing small grants—typically in the range of $50,000—to scientists to enable them to keep their labs open.
