The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and the American Society for Clinical Investigation have awarded Owen Witte with the twelfth annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine.
Matthew J. Carpenter was named associate director of the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
Physician-scientist Theodore Scott Nowicki, an assistant professor-in-residence of pediatric hematology/oncology and microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a $4.5 million R37 MERIT Award to help improve the effectiveness of cellular therapies for solid tumors.
A University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health researcher has received a $1.2 million grant from the American Cancer Society to evaluate potential links between the neighborhood environment and cancer risk.
Nemours Children’s Health opened the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders, on March 19. The institute is a state-of-the-art facility for pediatric patients in the Delaware Valley and beyond.
Former NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell was awarded the American Cancer Society 2025 Medal of Honor.
The American Association for Cancer Research named its newly elected 2025 class of fellows of the AACR Academy.
Kathy Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and two-time cancer survivor, will join Thyme Care as a strategic advisor for patient experience.
Breast cancer surgeon Tari A. King was appointed as chief surgical officer for the cancer service line at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Emory Healthcare. Joining Emory on July 14, she will also be the chief of the newly formed Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of Winship’s Glenn Family Breast Center.
Matteo Paz, 18, of Pasadena, CA, won the top award of $250,000 in the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the U.S.’s longest-running and most distinguished science, technology, engineering, and math competition for high school seniors (The Cancer Letter, March 7, 2025).
