Carl June, will receive the David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and Lecture at the ASCO annual meeting, to be held June 2-6.
The American College of Radiology Gold Medal, which recognizes distinguished and extraordinary service to the ACR or to radiology, went to Bruce Hillman, John Patti, and Jeffrey Weinreb.
Members of the Duchossois Family Foundation, including (back row, from left) Craig Duchossois, Janet Duchossois, Ilaria Woodward, Jessica Swoyer Green, Dayle Duchossois Fortino, (seated, from left) Ashley Joyce, Richard Duchossois and Kimberly Duchossois. Photo by Richard Shay
NCI awarded $24 million to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to continue operating the NCI's primary public access point for cancer information in both English and Spanish.
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has competed and been selected by scientific peers for a four-year grant renewal from the Department of Defense to continue membership in the prestigious Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium program.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Oncology Research Program has funded two investigators from NCCN member institutions through a collaborative scientific research relationship with AstraZeneca to further evaluate the clinical effectiveness of osimertinib in the treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor-positive non-small cell lung cancer.
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute announced an affiliation with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis effective June 1, 2017, giving Saint Luke's cancer patients expanded access to clinical trials beginning in late summer.
Peter BoyleTessa HolyoakePeter Boyle, president of the International Prevention Research Institute and director, of the University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health and Tessa Holyoake, director of the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, received this year's RSE Royal Medals.
Richard Peto will receive the William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium held Dec. 5-9. The McGuire Award was established in 1992 to honor William McGuire, who, along with Charles Coltman, founded SABCS in 1978. The topic of Peto’s award lecture will be announced at a later date.... […]
James Downing was named recipient of the Society of the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Prize. The award, created in 2016, recognizes an individual who has made exceptional and significant contributions to the field of pediatric oncology. Richard O’Reilly, chief, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service at MSK and the Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric... […]
