A $25 million gift from life sciences entrepreneur and investor Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Almudena, will support the development of Brown University’s recently launched cancer center.
City of Hope has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of oncology hospitals and outpatient care centers across the United States (The Cancer Letter, May 7, 2021).
A 1990 Nobel medal awarded to E. Donnall Thomas has sold for $312,500.
Case Western Reserve University and its academic medical center partners, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, which together form the consortium of the NCI designated comprehensive cancer center, are recruiting the next director for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Roman Skoracki was named medical director of the Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center (SSCBC) at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James).
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has announced three senior leadership appointments.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System opened the Adult Outpatient Pavilion, which is now the system’s largest outpatient facility.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has concluded its 2021 Patient Advocacy Summit, which focused on expanding precision medicine in order to improve cancer outcomes, featuring discussions on federal and local policies to broaden genetic/genomic testing access.
Experts will convene at the third Miami Cancer Institute Summit of Americas on Immunotherapies for Hematologic Malignancies in January 2022 to discuss advances in immunologically and molecular based system therapies, new-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for lymphoma, myeloma, and leukemia, the role and timing of hematopoietic cell transplantation, and the latest on CAR T-cell therapies.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology issued the following statement from ASTRO Board of Directors Chair Laura A. Dawson in response to the introduction of the Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
