Virginia Commonwealth University has been awarded a five-year, $9 million grant from NCI to establish a pioneering Cancer Control Equity Research Center. This initiative aims to enhance the dissemination and implementation of health promotion and cancer prevention services for individuals and families residing in Virginia’s Housing and Urban Development-administered income-based housing communities in the Greater Richmond region and Hampton Roads.
Stephen BaylinAndrew FeinbergJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers Stephen Baylin and Andrew Feinberg were awarded the 2022–2023 Harvey Prize in the field of Science and Technology by the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
Lauren Averett Byers, professor of thoracic/head & neck medical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Medicine from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology. The award recognizes her fundamental discoveries and contributions to identifying novel therapeutic strategies for small cell lung cancer, which have paved the way for personalized treatments, even in the most highly recalcitrant cancers.
Christopher Seet received a $2.9 million R37 MERIT Award from NCI to advance the development of innovative T cell therapies for cancer. He is an assistant professor of hematology-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Julie In received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study the impact of uranium on the cells that line the intestines.
Nan ZhangNoam AuslanderNan Zhang and Noam Auslander, the Wistar Institute assistant professors, have both received independent funding totaling $1.2 million over the next three years for cancer research projects from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The grants are awarded to cancer researchers deemed “V Scholars” and allow Zhang and Auslander to pursue separate projects aimed at new strategies to improve the effectiveness of certain cancer therapies.
Michael Wong joined Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as the center’s first physician-in-chief.
Andrew M. EvensPhillip ScheinbergThe British Journal of Haematology announced the appointment of Andrew M. Evens as its editor-in-chief, effective Jan. 1, 2025.
The President’s Cancer Panel released a report, Enhancing Patient Navigation with Technology to Improve Equity in Cancer Care, as part of a White House event acknowledging advancements in navigation support for cancer patients over the past year. The report calls on healthcare organizations, policymakers, and technology developers to keep pace with the rapid advancement and adoption of new technology.
Break Through Cancer has launched the PoweRD 2 Cure ALK+ Lung Cancer TeamLab, a collaboration among nine leading cancer research institutions, including Break Through Cancer’s five partner institutions: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as newly engaged collaborators from Mass General Brigham, Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
