A research team at the University of Arizona Health Sciences is developing a novel imaging technique to detect the spread of small liver tumors in patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
Kristen Gonter-Aubin joined the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute. She is seeing patients at the FCS Englewood office in Venice, FL. Prior to joining FCS, she was a member of the Hematology/Oncology Fellow Committee, the Program Evaluation Committee and the Resident Advisory Committee at the University of South Florida.
Gulden Mesara was named senior vice president and chief communications and marketing officer.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received $7.8 million from the Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation to fund the Riney Family Multiple Myeloma Research Program Fund.
Ge Jin and Bingcheng Wang received a $3.7 million five-year grant to explore why those living with HIV have a higher risk for certain kinds of cancers, such as lung cancer.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation and Robert F. Smith, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, plan to collaborate on research to reduce deaths from prostate cancer.
Edward Chu was named director of Albert Einstein Cancer Center, vice president for cancer medicine at Montefiore Medicine, professor of medicine and of molecular pharmacology, and will hold the Carol and Roger Einiger Professorship of Cancer Medicine at Einstein.
Erick Herrscher was named director of the Hyundai Cancer Institute at Children's Hospital of Orange County.
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah received a renewed NCI-designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The addition of 12 oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
