Lee Gerson joined the Steeplechase Cancer Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, as a thoracic surgeon.
The American Cancer Society and the International Association of Fire Fighters have established a long-term collaboration to help fire fighters and emergency medical service personnel with cancer detection, treatment, prevention, and patient support.
Bridget Oppong was named deputy director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James).
Mitchell D. Schnall was re-elected co-chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group by the Principal Investigator Committee.
Helen M. Piwnica-Worms and Fabrice André will be honored for their contributions to breast cancer research by the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and the American Association for Cancer Research, an SABCS cosponsor, at the 2021 SABCS Dec. 7-10.
The Goldstein familyRuth “Rikki” Kutcher Goldstein made a $2 million gift to support cancer research at Indiana University School of Medicine.
An Indiana University research team led by Wade Clapp received renewal for an $11.4 million SPORE grant first awarded by NCI in 2015, supporting research into identifying new treatments for tumors that develop in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), the most common inherited syndrome causing a predisposition to cancer.
GeoVax Labs Inc. and City of Hope entered into a license agreement granting GeoVax exclusive rights to further develop and commercialize COH04S1, a multi-antigenic SARS-CoV-2 investigational vaccine developed at City of Hope for immunocompromised patients.
NEXT Oncology entered into an agreement with the Quirónsalud Group to open two new phase I clinical trial centers in Spain.
Robert Califf has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the next commissioner of FDA, replacing acting commissioner Janet Woodcock.
