The Northwell Health Cancer Institute and its Center for Genomic Medicine opened Long Island’s first clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, a $3.2 million 2,800 square foot state-of-the-art facility with technology of next-generation sequencing that provides point-of-care tumor and patient genomic profiling to inform precision cancer therapy.
Indrin Chetty was selected as the new vice chair of research and director of the medical physics division in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine invested Mauricio S. Garcia in the Jerome S. Levy, MD, Chair in Gastroenterology and Hepatology during a May 1 ceremony.
James “Jim” Wallis and Patricia “Pat” Wallis pledged $500,000 to create the James and Patricia Wallis Professorship in Radiation Oncology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology.
Itzhak NirLynn SaavedraA new program at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to streamline cancer treatment for all New Mexicans, regardless of where they live in the state.
The University of New England has been awarded $100,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to spearhead innovative research aimed at combating a rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer.
Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling and Bruce Stillman, President & CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Source: Northwell HealthThe Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Northwell Health have renewed their affiliation that was originally announced in 2015.
Miriam Merad was named dean for Translational Research and Therapeutic Innovation of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Sana D. Karam will lead radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, beginning Oct. 1.
MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Pan American Health Organization are collaborating to strengthen cancer prevention and control initiatives across the Americas.
