In his first talk to NCI staff, director Norman “Ned” Sharpless presented himself as an institute insider—highlighting his career-long relationships with NCI and its “legends,” demonstrating his grasp of the institute's agenda and research portfolio.
As he goes about the task of building a cancer center, Donald “Skip” Trump has to align the money, the real estate, the recruitment—all the customary components of an institution.
Michael Caligiuri was named physician-in-chief of City of Hope and president of City of Hope National Medical Center.
Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D., cancer warrior, humanist, mentor to hundreds of researchers and physicians, friend to countless people, was filled with a burning curiosity to understand the world and to know personally everyone he came in contact with.
In 2010, John Knox Singleton, the CEO of the Inova Health System, had several meetings with John Niederhuber, a surgeon and scientist who had just been replaced as NCI director.
Should Donald “Skip” Trump look up while talking to you on the phone, he might see deer roaming in the pine forest outside his office window.
With a month to go before his Dec. 1 start date as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Peter Pisters reflected on the challenges that await him in Houston.
When two women—a patient advocate and a scientist—embarked on a mission to collect “normal” breast tissue for comparative purposes, colleagues in oncology dismissed their idea as wild.
The caveats should be acknowledged: Yes, all cancer centers are different. If you've seen one, you've seen one. Yes, every center director has a different political and economic situation on his or her hands, and, sure, the observation that follows in the next paragraph could well be a fluke:
Dr. Oliver "Ollie" Press, photographed on Jan. 19, 2017 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.Oliver “Ollie” Press, a blood cancer physician who made foundational contributions to the development of targeted cancer therapies, died Sept. 29 of complications from glioma. He was 65.
