City of Hope received a $100 million donation from longtime director Arthur Riggs in January.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has established the established Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity and fellowships for health equity and diversity with a $7 million donation from Jamie C. Nicholls and O. Francis Biondi.
Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital received a two year, $750,000 grant from Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to measure, address, and create accountability around cancer health inequities.
A letter published in The Washington Post and sent to President Joe Biden was signed by 95 physicians, clinicians, researchers, nurses, and leaders in oncology supporting the nomination of Janet Woodcock as the next permanent FDA Commissioner.
Jeremy Rich was named deputy director of research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.
Yen-Michael Hsu was named director of the Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Therapeutics Laboratory at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.
Jeffrey Bradley was named interim chairman of the Emory University Department of Radiation Oncology.
The 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting will be an online only experience, June 4-8, 2021.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation have established a $3.3 million program to address the cancer burden in rural areas and Native Nations across New York State, with an emphasis on the Western New York region.
Craig Lockhart was named chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina and associate director for clinical science at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, effective April 1.
