CHRISTINA COUGHLIN was named chief medical officer of Immunocore Ltd.
Rubicon Genomics Inc. extended its clinical supply agreement with Agendia for use of its TransPLEX whole genome RNA amplification technology.
Intrexon Corp. signed a cooperative research and development agreement with NCI for the development of adoptive T cell therapies utilizing the RheoSwitch Therapeutic System platform for the treatment of solid tumor malignancies.
MD Anderson Preempts AAUP's Report By Releasing the Draft to the Press—With a ForewordBy Matthew Bin Han Ong
Mark Green, former director of Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of California, San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, died Feb. 23, at the age of 70.
The National Cancer Institute Harold Varmus will leave on March 31 is leaner, cleaner, and more focused than it was on July 12, 2010, the day he became its 14th director.
NCI Director Harold Varmus announced that he will be stepping down at the end of this month.
Meir Wetzler, 60, chief of the Leukemia Section at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, died Feb. 23, nearly two weeks after a skiing accident in Denver, Colo.
Faculty Urges UT System to Help Fix MD Anderson's Woes
Rising 19,341 feet above sea level, Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. It is a dormant but non-extinct volcano which last erupted some 150,000 years ago.