Thomas J. Fuchs was named co-director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, dean of artificial intelligence and human health, and professor of computational pathology and computer science in the Department of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Kevin Kalinsky was named director of the Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Kalinsky was also named associate professor in Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.
David Gius was named associate cancer center director for translational research at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson.
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation has received $25 million from the Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation.
Sidi Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Systems Biology Institute at Yale School of Medicine and member of Yale Cancer Center, received a $500,000 grant from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy for pancreatic cancer research.
City of Hope has established AccessHope, a wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to serving employers and their health care partners by providing access to City of Hope's cancer expertise.
Jennifer A. Doudna, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Germany, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing system.
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.
NCI has awarded 25 grants and contracts as part of the Serological Sciences Network initiative.
Last week, a national public perception survey from the American Society of Clinical Oncology revealed a public grappling with cancer care amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation's reckoning with racial injustice.
