publication date: May. 26, 2017
Issue 21 - May. 26, 2017
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  • Amy Reed, physician and patient who “moved mountains” to end widespread use of power morcellation, dies at 44

    When Amy Reed enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania medical school in 2001, she could not have possibly imagined that she would save more lives as a patient than as a physician.

    The final phase of her medical education began on Oct. 17, 2013, when Reed, then 41, checked in at Brigham & Women’s Hospital—her husband’s workplace at that time—to undergo a common gynecological procedure that would fundamentally redefine her career, and, ultimately, consume her life.

  • Trump would cut over 20 percent of NIH, NCI budgets in new FY18 proposal

    The White House has proposed cutting $7.2 billion from the NIH budget, with $1.2 billion coming out of NCI—a proposal that, if supported by Congress, would eviscerate the cancer research enterprise in the United States, critics say.

    NIH stands to lose 21 percent in the Trump administration’s updated fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which would reduce the NIH budget to $26.92 billion. Also, the White House proposes to cut $1.2 billion from NCI’s budget—a 20 percent loss.

  • Obituary

    H. Jean Khoury, 50, hematologist and pioneer in leukemia research, dies

    H. Jean Khoury, an expert in hematologic malignancies at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, died May 22, after a year spent battling cancer. He was 50.

    Khoury, whose work focused on chronic myeloid leukemia, acute leukemia, and myelodysplasticsyndrome, joined Winship in 2004 as director of the Leukemia Program, director of the Division of Hematology, and associate professor in the Emory School of Medicine. In 2009, he was promoted to professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and was later named to the R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology.

  • ODAC votes 12-4 to recommend approval for kinase inhibitor used after completion of trastuzumab 

    The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee May 24 voted 12-4 to recommend approval of neratinib for the extended adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage ERBB2-positive breast cancer who have received prior adjuvant trastuzumab-based therapy.

    The drug, which has the trade name Nerlynx, is sponsored by Puma Biotechnology Inc.

  • In Brief

    • Carl June to receive ASCO’s Karnofsky award, Eric Winer—Bonadonna award, Brian Druker—Science of Oncology award
    • ACR Gold Medals go to Bruce Hillman, John Patti, and Jeffrey Weinreb 
    • A $100 million gift establishes a UChicago institute focused on microbiome and immunity 
    • NCI awards Fred Hutch $24 million to operate contact center for patients 
    • Karmanos wins federal grant renewal for membership in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium 
    • NCCN funds two studies through collaboration with AstraZeneca to evaluate effectiveness of osimertinib
    • Saint Luke’s and Washington University School of Medicine announce clinical trials affiliation 

     

  • Drugs and Targets

    • Keytruda gets accelerated approval based on a genetic feature—first such action
    • Debiopharm acquires antibody-drug conjugate compound from ImmunoGen

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