Tracy Onega was named senior director of population sciences at Huntsman Cancer Institute and professor of population sciences at the University of Utah. She began her position at HCI Aug. 1.
Deirdre J. Cohen was named director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program for the Mount Sinai Health System, and Medical Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Office at The Tisch Cancer Institute.
A $10.6 million grant from NIH will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to expand its proteomics resource.
Baylor's Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center received $11 million in renewed SPORE funding from NCI.
Biochemist Charles Brenner was named the inaugural holder of the Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Chair in Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism at City of Hope.
Henry A. Pitt was named chief of oncologic quality at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a RWJBarnabas Health facility.
George Simon was named executive medical director of the joint Moffitt Cancer Center-AdventHealth new clinical research unit in Celebration, FL.
Dorina Avram was named vice chair of the Department of Immunology at Moffitt Cancer Center, where she will work closely with department chair Jose R. Conejo-Garcia. Additionally, Avram will have a secondary appointment in the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded 62 new grants totaling over $114 million—consisting of 52 academic research grant awards, eight prevention awards, and two product development research awards.
Yale's Ranjithmenon Muraleedharan has received the SebastianStrong Foundation's $225,000 2020 Discovery Science Award.
