Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and the Cleveland Clinic was awarded more than $7.9 million by the NCI to support a new Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network center.
The American Cancer Society has approved funding for 89 new Extramural Discovery Science research grants totaling $54.3 million. The grants will fund investigators at 65 institutions across the U.S. starting Jan. 1, 2023.
Elizabeth Jaffee, Electra Paskett, and Pelatonia received the 2022 American Association of Cancer Institutes awards.
William A. Calo was named co-leader of the Cancer Control Program of the Penn State Cancer Institute.
The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children’s Hospital was awarded more than $10.3 million by NCI to continue translational lymphoma research.
Dina M. Jones, assistant professor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Center for the Study of Tobacco, received a $733,000 K01 grant to conduct a study that seeks to understand disparities in smoking cessation among African American menthol cigarette smokers.
The Jack Martin Fund has built on its partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System to provide care and support to children with cancer through a $3.5 million gift to The Mount Sinai Hospital to establish the Jack Martin Fund Child and Adolescent Imaging Center at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.
Neil Palmisiano was named the new deputy director of phase I therapeutics for hematologic malignancies and co-medical director of the Office of Human Research Services at Rutgers Cancer Institute; and new system leader for Leukemia for RWJBarnabas Health.
Joseph R. Triggs has been named assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology of the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
David Weintritt has joined the community-based cancer treatment team at Virginia Cancer Specialists, a U.S. Oncology Network practice.
