NYU Langone Health's Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center announced a transformational philanthropic gift to establish a Center for Blood Cancers that will house a new, world-class program for multiple myeloma care and research, along with its other blood cancer programs. The new center will significantly expand Perlmutter Cancer Center's capacity to study and treat blood cancers.
Ross Mitchell has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the artificial intelligence officer.
Sagar Lonial, chief medical officer for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, was presented with the Anne and Bernard Gray Family Chair in Cancer.
Stand Up To Cancer has awarded the 2019 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research to two clinical investigators who will join in a bi-coastal collaboration to use radiation and immunotherapy pre-operatively to help the body create its own vaccine to fight breast cancer. A clinical trial is currently in development.
Stand Up To Cancer has awarded an $8 million grant to a top team of scientists to develop therapies that use a person's immune cells to recognize and attack T-cell lymphoma.
Robert Prins, professor of neurosurgery and molecular and medical pharmacology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a $750,000 grant to support research in developing immunotherapies for brain tumors.
The Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute has awarded research grants to four projects focused on understanding how treatment of bladder cancer affects women, why the disease has a less favorable outcome for women than men, and how biology could play a role in offering new targets for cancer therapy.
Over the past year, major research advances provided new treatment options for patients with rare, difficult-to-treat cancers. In recognition of these achievements, the American Society of Clinical Oncology names “Progress in Treating Rare Cancers” as the Advance of the Year. To continue the forward momentum, ASCO also debuts its list of Research Priorities to accelerate progress against cancer. These and additional milestones in cancer research are featured in ASCO's annual Clinical Cancer Advances report.
Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on Finance convened what is likely to be the first in a series of hearings focused on the rising costs of prescription drugs, oncology drugs among them.
FDA is enhancing its ability to handle real-world evidence by training reviewers in data science via a curriculum on machine learning and artificial intelligence, said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
