JOHN WESTON was named chief operating officer and executive vice president of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Most recently Weston served as public affairs department chair and chief marketing officer for the Mayo Clinic. He began his career at Mars Inc., held senior leadership positions at FedEx and was the chief marketing and corporate development officer […]
MARGARET FOTI was honored at the 41st Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society with the Honorary Member Award. Foti is chief executive officer of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Honorary Member Award is awarded by the ONS to thank and honor an individual who is not otherwise eligible for ONS membership for […]
JENNIFER PIETENPOL was named executive vice president for research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective May 1.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute approved $44.4 million in funding for 21 new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research studies.
Over 150 organizations sent an open letter to the leaders of the Senate Health, Labor, Educations and Pensions Committee, supporting them for advancing legislation that will form the basis of the Senate's version of the 21st Century Cures Act, which passed the House last year.
“And I believe we need a moonshot in this country to cure cancer.”
The Genomic Data Commons, NCI's latest big data project, is poised to become a major player in oncology bioinformatics when it opens June 1.
NCI is preparing to open the Genomic Data Commons, a $20 million big data endeavor aimed at making raw genomic data publicly available.
April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power facility accident in the former Soviet Union. Soon after the accident, I received a call from the Soviet ambassador to the U.S. on behalf of Mikhail Gorbachev asking me to come immediately to Moscow.
“There is more brain power in this room than exists in many countries,” said Vice President Joe Biden, addressing over 4,000 members of the American Association for Cancer Research, during a speech that turned personal at times, as he laid out several suggestions for accelerating progress.
