Carlo Croce will receive the 11th Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research during the AACR Annual Meeting 2017, to be held April 1-5, in Washington.
Roger Lo will receive the first AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research during the AACR annual meeting.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center received a $35 million donation from the Bezos family, the largest private contribution in the center's 41-year history.
Special section on survival finds significant improvement for all but two cancer sites March 31, 2017—Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network launched the NCCN Radiation Therapy Compendium during the NCCN 22nd Annual Conference. The conference was titled “Improving the Quality, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Cancer Care.”
Kemi DollSaad KenderianFlorian MullerElizabeth StewartThe NCCN Foundation has awarded grants to four young investigators from NCCN member institutions. The grants will provide $150,000 in funding over a two-year period to each awardee, beginning in July 2017.
Friends of Cancer Research launched an online learning community, ProgressForPatients.org. The site is home to two new programs Friends has been developing over the course of the last year, Friends' Advocacy Education and Advocacy Alliance.
The American Cancer Society and a coalition of leading professional, government and non-governmental organizations have formed the National Lung Cancer Roundtable.
Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian, in coordination with the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Consortium, is launching a three-year research collaboration to develop new methods for analyzing digital images that track a patient's response to cancer therapy.
The Mikey Czech Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation established by Stephen and Jennifer Czech to finance medical research for pediatric brain tumors, announced a $1 million gift to Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber, headed by Mark Kieran.
