CancerLinQ LLC, a wholly-owned nonprofit subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Oncology Nursing Society announced the formation of the CancerLinQ Ambassadors Program.
Boone Hospital Center, one of Missouri's top hospitals and part of BJC HealthCare, is the first affiliate in the network and will work with Siteman Cancer Center to provide access to cancer prevention and control strategies and genomic and genetic testing in the mid-Missouri area.
The Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine will launch the nation's largest study of African American cancer survivors to better understand disproportionately high incidence and mortality from cancer and its impact on this specific patient population.
Sheldon M. Feldman was named chief of the division of breast surgery and surgical oncology, and director of Breast Cancer Services at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, the clinical arm of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center.
Michael Rosen was named chief communications officer at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
After three rounds of competition — one of which involved a public vote — a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time has won the first-ever international Open Science Prize.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes the outstanding achievement of graduate studies in the biological sciences. The thirteen award recipients were chosen by a selection committee of Fred Hutch faculty members and students for the quality, originality and significance of their work, and for representation of a diverse range of research topics.
Boehringer Ingelheim announced a new multi-year collaboration with Vanderbilt University, complementing an already existing collaboration by focusing on the research and development of small molecule compounds targeting the protein SOS (Son Of Sevenless).
For the sixth year in a row, iKnowMed electronic health record has been named the top-ranked EHR platform for oncologists and hematologists by Black Book Research, an industry-leading source for polling, surveys and market research.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, in collaboration with NantHealth and Allscripts, is implementing a custom technical solution that, for the first time, enables eviti, a NantHealth clinical decision support solution, access to clinical workflows in the Allscripts Sunrise electronic health record.
