Robert Redfield is expected to be named the 18th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Science will start enrollment in the state's first-ever radiation oncology residency program.
Andrew Aplin was named the first recipient of the Kalbach-Newtown professorship at Thomas Jefferson University.
Jennifer Dorazio was named assistant director for administration at WVU Cancer Institute
Cofactor Genomics said it has made an agreement with NCI, along with agreements regarding research groups at three other academic and pharma institutions, to demonstrate the clinical utility of the company's immune-profiling assay, Cofactor Paragon.
AbbVie and the International Myeloma Foundation entered into a collaboration to conduct a retrospective chart review study to understand and manage multiple myeloma.
Vanderbilt University and the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim expanded their existing collaboration to develop anti-cancer compounds.
Urgent action must be taken to address the dramatic rise of cancer drug prices and to better align prices with value, the President's Cancer Panel urged in a recent report.
The American Association for Cancer Research has launched a collaborative initiative that will perform genomic sequencing of both tumor and normal tissue from 2,020 consented African-American cancer patients, and aggregate it with clinical data from the patients.
Aurora Health Care and University of Texas Health Sciences at Houston have joined the Strata Precision Oncology Network.
