Ben Ho Park, the Donna S. Hall Professor of Breast Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology.
Michaela A. Dinan was named co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center received a $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to use the microbiome to limit complications of stem cell transplants for blood cancers and other diseases.
Yale Cancer Center member Sidi Chen, assistant professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, and a member of the Yale West Campus Systems Biology Institute, was awarded a $500,000 research grant from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy to advance multiplexed activation of endogenous genes as an Immunotherapy or MAEGI technology.
The American Association for Cancer Research has named the 2020-2021 inaugural class of FDA-AACR Oncology Educational Fellows.
Alliance Cancer Specialists and Northwest Oncology have joined the US Oncology Network.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) and the Ohio State College of Pharmacy have been awarded a five-year, $7 million competitive Program Project grant renewal from NCI.
The Walther Cancer Foundation plans to invest $11 million to advance collaborative cancer research at Indiana University and Purdue University by supporting scientists through bioinformatics.
John Glaspy was named the inaugural Simms/Mann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Integrative Oncology at David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles.
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center–Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University has said its cancer research programs will be clustered into four key areas: Cancer Risk and Control; Molecular Oncology Regulation and Approaches; Translational and Cellular Oncology; and Immune Cell Regulation and Targeting.
