In Brief

Amy Abernethy was named president of clinical research business at Verily, an Alphabet company.

John H. Glick, president of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at Penn Medicine, professor of medicine, and the Madlyn & Leonard Abramson Professor of Clinical Oncology, will retire at the end of the academic year and assume emeritus status.

Andrew E. Aplin was named deputy director for scientific strategy of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health. 

Sukhmani K. Padda was named director of Thoracic Medical Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.

Amy Jo Jenkins was named director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s new Office of Clinical Trials Administration and will lead early phase clinical trials at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Andrew Schaefer, the Noah Harding Chair and a professor of computational and applied mathematics and computer science at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering, has received a four-year NCI grant for $1.2 million to develop a personalized approach to adaptive radiation therapy for head and neck cancers.

The American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society are collaborating to encourage people to donate blood for cancer treatment.

Five researchers have received the 2021 New Discoveries Young Investigator Awards from the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network. 

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a dedicated neurofibromatosis care program.