Ulrich Steidl, an expert in cancer and stem cell biology, has been named the chair of the department of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Steidl assumes his new position as Arthur Skoultchi, who has led the department for 24 years, steps down from departmental leadership.
Melissa D. Fana, a breast surgical oncologist, has joined NYU Langone Health as director of women’s health for Suffolk County and chief of service for breast surgery at Long Island Community Hospital, effective Dec. 1.
The Lung Nodule Program, launched this year as a collaboration of the OSUCCC–James and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, was established to create a system for capturing incidental chest CT lung nodule findings—with the aid of machine learning tools—to determine which patients need additional evaluation.
Eyal Gottlieb was named vice president for research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $10 million gift from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and Andrew “Andy” Sabin, a senior member of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors.
Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center has formed the Geriatric Oncology Center of Excellence to address the needs of a growing patient population through innovative research and care delivery methods via a multidisciplinary approach.
The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a five-year $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Data Science Strategy at NIH to investigate whether problem-based learning will more effectively help to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce and reduce health disparities.
In celebration of November’s Native American Heritage Month and Stomach Cancer Awareness Month observances, the John Wayne Cancer Foundation is funding research that will allow doctors to assess barriers to treatment of H. pylori and disseminate findings to community health partners to reduce the occurrence of stomach cancer.
Shellie Ellis, associate professor of population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was awarded a $1.2 million R01 grant from NCI to test an intervention she and her colleagues designed known as TEAMSPORT (Multi-TEAM Systems Framework Precision Oncology Reflex Testing).
The Cancer Support Community and the National Rural Oncology Collaborative partnered to make medical oncology treatments and cancer support services available at Breckinridge Health, a critical-access hospital located in the rural community of Hardinsburg, Kentucky.
