The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health awarded the second annual Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists to NCI's James Kochenderfer.
Astellas awarded $200,000 in total grants and resources to winners of the fourth annual Changing Cancer Care prize, a challenge that funds ideas beyond medicine to improve cancer care for patients, caregivers and their loved ones.
Barry Paul Sleckman was named director of the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Michael Birrer was named vice chancellor and director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Birrer specializes in gynecologic cancers and will join the university by the end of the year.
The Association of American Cancer Institutes presented three awards at its annual meeting Oct. 20-22:
Kevin G. Billingsley, Roy H. Decker, Megan King, Carla Rothlin, Katerina Politi, Don Nguyen and Mark Lemmon have taken on leadership positions at Yale Cancer Center.
Jyoti Patel will join Northwestern Medicine as medical director of Thoracic Oncology and assistant director for Clinical Research at the Lurie Cancer Center this November. Patel, an expert in lung cancer and other thoracic cancers, will also serve as associate vice chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Medicine.
The National Cancer Institute gave an $8.6 million grant to The University of Arizona Cancer Center for the UA Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network.
A drug pricing bill (HR-3) supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will come to the floor of the House of Representatives for a full vote later this month.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are working to combat childhood cancers in developing countries with training for radiotherapy professionals and research support for pediatric radiation oncology.
