Chanita Hughes-Halbert was named director for cancer equity at University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Keck School of Medicine.
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Syntropy and the Foundry Platform have entered into a technology collaboration to grow data science capabilities.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and Association of Community Cancer Centers plans to test a research site assessment tool and implicit bias training program, both of which are designed to address one of the barriers to clinical trial participation: trials not routinely being offered by clinicians to eligible patients.
Naiyer Rizvi was named chief medical officer of Synthekine Inc.
Pearl McElfish was named associate director of community outreach and engagement at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Indiana University received a five-year, $3 million grant from NCI to study cognitive dysfunction after chemotherapy.
Seven researchers have received a total of $1.15 million from the American Institute for Cancer Research to study the relationship between diet, nutrition, physical activity, body weight and cancer prevention and survivorship.
Dan Theodorescu and Peter Kuhn have received the inaugural $1.25 million Virtual Cancer Center Director Award from the Department of Defense.
A group of more than 50 cancer research-focused organizations are urging Congress to include $10 billion in emergency funding to restart cancer research and clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health stalled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Research from the University of Arizona Health Sciences shows that advanced-stage kidney cancer is more common in Hispanic Americans and Native Americans than in non-Hispanic whites, and that both Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in Arizona have an increased risk of mortality from the disease.
