MICHAEL DIEFENBACH, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research scientist and Northwell Health director of Behavioral Research in the Department of Medicine and Urology, demonstrated an app to help with decision-making for prostate cancer treatment. Prostate cancer patients face a variety of treatment options ranging from immediate surgery and/or radiation to health care professionals observing the... […]
MD ANDERSON Cancer Center established the Beau Biden Chair for Brain Cancer Research. The endowed chair, which was announced during a presentation to Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden during MD Anderson’s 75th Anniversary Gala, is in memory of Biden’s late son Beau, who was treated at MD Anderson. A recipient of the Biden... […]
FELIPE SUERO joined the Department of Anesthesiology at Fox Chase Cancer Center as an attending anesthesiologist. Suero comes to Fox Chase from Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, where he practiced as an attending anesthesiologist for cardiac and general surgeries for ten years. Suero has served as a general practitioner in the Spanish navy and a walk-in clinic... […]
ELISABETH HEATH, of Karmanos Cancer Institute, was presented with the Michigan Cancer Consortium’s inaugural Champion Award for 2016 for her efforts in curbing cancer. Heath has been with Karmanos Cancer Institute since 2003, appointed director of Prostate Cancer Research in 2010, and became a full professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2013.... […]
CRAIG REYNOLDS will retire from his job as director of the NCI Office of Scientific Operations at Frederick, MD. His retirement is effective Dec. 2. Kristin Komschlies, the current deputy director at OSO, was named acting director. NCI will conduct a national search for a permanent successor “Since 2002, [Reynolds] has played a key role... […]
WILLIAM CANCE joined the University of Arizona Cancer Center as deputy director and will lead the efforts in Phoenix at the UA Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. He is a surgical oncologist who treats patients with complex gastrointestinal and endocrine cancers. He has a particular focus on the diagnosis... […]
CHARLES DRAKE joined New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center as director of genitourinary oncology and associate director for clinical research at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of Columbia’s Cancer Immunotherapy Program. Drake is a physician-scientist with a Ph.D. in immunology, whose work focuses on understanding and fighting advanced-stage cancers with the immune system.... […]
In a related development, president Michael McRobbie announced the formation of the Champion Center for Cancer Control Research at the IU School of Nursing. It is named after oncology researcher Distinguished Professor Victoria Champion. With 13 faculty members pursuing groundbreaking research in oncology, IU School of Nursing has the largest number of oncology research-intensive faculty... […]
THE JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE at the St. Johns Health Center, Providence Health Systems in Santa Monica, CA, and Singapore-based Clearbridge BioMedics will work together to establish a Circulating Tumor Cell Center of Research Excellence. This new center builds upon JWCI’s experience in CTC assessment in patients and Clearbridge BioMedics’ expertise in isolating CTCs. The... […]
ST. BALDRICK’S FOUNDATION is providing infrastructure grants to nearly 40 childhood cancer institutions across the U.S., allowing them to conduct research and increase the number of children participating in clinical trials. A joint program was created from three Chicago institutions, with the support of St. Baldrick’s infrastructure grants, to enroll patients on Children’s Oncology Group... […]
