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.
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research announced Jeffrey Ravetch, the Theresa and Eugene M. Lang professor and head of the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at The Rockefeller University, as the recipient of the fifth annual Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine.
Molecular biologist Alan Bernstein is the 2017 recipient of the $35,000 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
Levine Cancer Institute launched the first mobile lung computed tomography unit designed to address lung cancer diagnosis, treatment and survival disparities for rural populations across the Carolinas.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is naming the institution's principal research tower after its first medical director, Donald Pinkel.
Robert Wechsler-Reya was named program director for the Joseph Clayes III Research Center for Neuro-Oncology and Genomics at the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.
Lauren Lawrence is the vice president of Karmanos Cancer Network, effective immediately.
