The American Association for Cancer Research Dec. 6 delivered a letter from the current AACR president and past presidents, urging the House and Senate leaders to “move quickly to finalize a multi-year, bipartisan budget agreement that raises the caps on non-defense discretionary spending in FY 2018 imposed by the Budget Control Act.”
Richard Pazdur, director of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence, was named to the Bloomberg list of 50 people who defined global business in 2017.
Consumer access to effective and affordable medicines is an imperative for public health, social equity, and economic development, but this need is not being served adequately by the biopharmaceutical sector, says a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Antonio Wolff was named chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group's Breast Cancer Committee, effective immediately.
Louis Weiner has been named director of MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute, the largest not-for-profit healthcare system across Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region. Weiner will also remain director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has awarded a Specialized Center of Research grant to a 12-member team of researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Ronda Henry-Tillman was named recipient of the Muriel Balsam Kohn Chair in Breast Surgical Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is chief of breast oncology in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Surgery.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Oncology Research Program and Pfizer Global Medical Grants said they have awarded funding to nine projects that use clinical care pathways to implement quality improvement initiatives along the continuum of care for underserved patients with breast cancer.
Ronald Maier, the Jane and Donald D. Trunkey Endowed Chair in Trauma Surgery, vice-chairman, department of surgery, and professor of surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, was elected president-elect of the American College of Surgeons at the College's Annual Business Meeting held last month during its 2017 Clinical Congress in San Diego.
Leigh Neumayer was elected chair of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons during the College's annual Clinical Congress, held in San Diego, Calif.
