The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium.
Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, has been elected to a second six-year term, beginning in July. In addition, Carlos del Rio, executive associate dean for Emory University School of Medicine at Grady Health System, has been elected as the next foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine.
Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Ludwig Center, Lustgarten Laboratory, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute received on Jan. 22, the prestigious 2020 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, presented by the National Academy of Sciences to outstanding contributors in the medical sciences.
Faculty from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and Florida International University are joining Miami Cancer Institute Jan. 24-25 for its inaugural Symposium on Immunotherapies for Hematologic Malignancies.
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven announces four appointments:
City of Hope will open its Newport Beach site on Jan. 27.
Stand Up To Cancer is announcing a health equity initiative with the goal of increasing diversity in cancer clinical trials.
Roxanne Taylor was named chief marketing and communications officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Al B. Benson III was appointed deputy chair for policy and implementation by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group.
Karen L. Reckamp was named director of the Division of Medical Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. Reckamp, a lung cancer expert, will serve as medical oncology director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute in Cedars-Sinai's Department of Medicine and associate director for clinical research at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
