The Association of Community Cancer Centers honored the recipients of 2019 ACCC Innovator Awards at the ACCC 36th National Oncology Conference, Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Orlando.
Otis Webb Brawley received the University of Chicago's Professional Achievement Award. He and other recipients were honored at the Alumni Medal Presentation and Alumni Professional Achievement Awards Ceremony Nov. 8.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer have formed a collaboration to introduce lung cancer reporting measures in Brazil.
NIH has awarded $20 million total to fund five additional hubs designed to speed up the translation of biomedical discoveries into commercially viable diagnostics, devices, therapeutics and tools to improve patient care and enhance health.
Robert Winn was named director of Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center. The lung cancer and community-based health care expert will begin his role at VCU Dec. 2.
Myles BrownCelina KleerMyles Brown is the recipient of the 2019 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research award at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, and Celina Kleer will receive the 2019 American Association for Cancer Research Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research at the symposium.
Brian Rini, an expert in genitourinary oncology, kidney cancer and clinical drug development, is joining Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as the inaugural chief of clinical trials.
The prostate cancer program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health was awarded a $8.7 million SPORE grant from NCI.
Johns Hopkins Medicine collaborated with Children's National Hospital to open the Johns Hopkins National Proton Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, providing proton technology for pediatric and adult cancer patients in the District of Columbia.
MD Anderson Cancer Center has named Allyson Hancock Kinzel as senior vice president and chief legal officer, effective Nov. 1.
