Norman “Ned” Sharpless named NCI director by Trump administration
Source: University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Hartley Brodie, professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a scientist whose groundbreaking research is considered among the greatest advances in treating breast cancer, died of complications from Parkinson's disease at her home in Fulton, MD. She was 82.
A group of cancer researchers is trying to conducting randomized trials aimed at maximizing the value of oncology treatment regimens.
In an unprecedented, fast-tracked review, FDA granted accelerated approval to a treatment for patients whose cancers have a specific genetic feature.
Debiopharm International and ImmunoGen, Inc. announced that Debiopharm has acquired ImmunoGen's IMGN529/DEBIO 1562, a clinical-stage anti-CD37 ADC for the treatment of patients with B-cell malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
Carl June, will receive the David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and Lecture at the ASCO annual meeting, to be held June 2-6.
The American College of Radiology Gold Medal, which recognizes distinguished and extraordinary service to the ACR or to radiology, went to Bruce Hillman, John Patti, and Jeffrey Weinreb.
Members of the Duchossois Family Foundation, including (back row, from left) Craig Duchossois, Janet Duchossois, Ilaria Woodward, Jessica Swoyer Green, Dayle Duchossois Fortino, (seated, from left) Ashley Joyce, Richard Duchossois and Kimberly Duchossois. Photo by Richard Shay
NCI awarded $24 million to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to continue operating the NCI's primary public access point for cancer information in both English and Spanish.
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has competed and been selected by scientific peers for a four-year grant renewal from the Department of Defense to continue membership in the prestigious Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium program.
