Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center announced the creation of The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Cancer Ecosystems Project, which aims to spur the next revolution of preclinical research, discovery, and treatment.
Noe Crespo was named co-leader of the Cancer Control Program at University of California San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center.
Iberia Romina Sosa, an associate professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was named chief of the Division of Hematology in the Department of Hematology/Oncology.
Wells Messersmith has been named chief medical officer of oncology services at University of Colorado Health.
Margaret von Mehren, chief of the Division of Sarcoma Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was named vice chair of the Department of Hematology/Oncology.
Sanjay Goel was named director of the Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Mateusz Opyrchal was named the inaugural Vera Bradley Foundation Scholar in Breast Cancer Discovery in the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Linda Fleisher, associate research professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recognized with the Lillie D. Shockney Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+).
Julie E. Bauman was named director of the George Washington University Cancer Center. She will also serve as professor of medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
An anonymous donor has made a $25 million gift to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to establish the UNC Lineberger Center for Triple Negative Breast Cancer and to support other UNC Lineberger research initiatives.
