Julia H. Rowland, member of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Board of Directors and former director of NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship, and Thomas J. Smith, director of palliative medicine for Johns Hopkins Medicine, received the 2020 Ellen L. Stovall Award for Innovation in Patient-Centered Cancer Care, presented by The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.
Jedd Wolchok received a $1 million grant over a three-year period from The William Randolph Hearst Foundation to establish a new immuno-oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and support postdoctoral students who are conducting exceptional research in the field of immune-oncology and immunotherapy.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded nine new academic research grants totaling $26 million to recruit cancer researchers to Texas.
New policy adopted by physicians at the American Medical Association's Special Meeting of its House of Delegates recognizes racism as a public health threat and commits to actively work on dismantling racist policies and practices across all of health care.
Radiation oncologists across the country met virtually with members of Congress this week to urge lawmakers to pass legislation that will safeguard access to high-quality, value-based health care for people with cancer.
Abraham Chachoua was named director of the Lung Cancer Center at Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Researchers with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have received $5 million in funding from NCI to establish an HIV-associated Malignancy Research Center focused on lung cancer in East Africa.
John Turchi receives $2.9 million from NCI to improve effectiveness of lung cancer radiation therapy
John Turchi, a researcher at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from NCI to develop a drug that could make radiation therapy far more effective.
The Michael J. Crescence VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and VA Boston Medical Health Center in Boston have both received $50,000 grants from SWOG Cancer Research Network and The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research.
The US Oncology Network has enrolled its 100,000th patient in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's Oncology Care Model.
