Michael Birrer, vice chancellor and director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was invested July 15 in the Kent C. Westbrook, M.D. Director’s Chair for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Rachel Katzenellenbogen was named a co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.Â
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has established the Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging.Â
Zachary Frosch was named assistant professor within the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Association of Community Cancer Centers have invited 75 research sites to participate in a pilot project testing a research site self-assessment tool and an implicit bias training program focused on increasing racial and ethnic diversity among clinical trial participants. Â
The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center has earned renewal of its NCI designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center for another five years.
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade will receive the William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Dec. 7-10, 2021.
NCI has named 10 recipients of the NCI Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards.
Marco ArgentiKaryn TempleMargaret TemperoMarco Argenti and Karyn Temple were named to the board of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is funding 11 new grants in 2021 and extending two previously awarded grants for a total of $3 million as part of its Research Grants Program.
