NRG Oncology, one of the five funded network groups within NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network said Robert Mannel will serve as one of its three group chairmen. He joins Walter Curran and Norman Wolmark as the NRG Oncology group chairmen and principal investigators of the group’s federal awards. Mannell, director of the Stephenson Cancer Center,... […]
James Allison and Robert Schreiber won the Balzan Prize for their contributions to immunological approaches in cancer therapy. According to the prize committee, “Professors Schreiber and Allison have played transformative roles in the field of tumor immunology, Schreiber by demonstrating that the immune system is crucially involved in fighting tumours and by introducing the concept... […]
David Penson, chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named associate editor of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Penson, the Paul V. Hamilton and Virginia E. Howd Professor in Urologic Oncology, also serves as director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research at Vanderbilt University... […]
The American Association for Cancer Research is accepting nominations for the 2018 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research.The AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research will recognize a worthy cancer researcher who has conducted highly meritorious translational and clinical cancer research who... […]
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey appointed H. Richard Alexander as its new chief surgical officer. He is also appointed as a professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a five-year, $11.3 million Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grant from NCI to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology has selected 43 recipients to be presented with one of its 2017 Annual Meeting Abstract Awards. These individuals will be recognized for their top-rated research abstracts at ASTRO's 59th Annual Meeting, taking place Sept. 24-27 in San Diego.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is working with MEDITECH to integrate the NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates into MEDITECH's Web Electronic Health Record as standard cancer treatment protocols for use at point of care.
Camille Ragin, associate professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, received a grant from NIH to create a center of research excellence at the University of the West Indies, a regional university with its main campus in Jamaica.
Guenther Koehne was named chief of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Hematologic Oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida.
