RESEARCH!AMERICA’s 21st annual Advocacy Awards will honor advocates for research whose contributions to health and medicine have saved lives and improved quality of life for patients worldwide. The event will take place March 15, 2017, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. The 2017 Advocacy Award winners announced Oct. 6, with additional awardees... […]
JACQUELINE CORRIGAN-CURAY was selected as the permanent director of the FDA Office of Medical Policy at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Corrigan-Curay most recently served as a supervisory medical officer with the Immediate Office of the Director at NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where she worked on establishing a new trans-NHLBI... […]
SURESH RAMALINGAM, deputy director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and assistant dean for cancer research in the Emory School of Medicine, was selected to hold the Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. The endowment was established to support a key leader in Winship’s lung cancer program. The position was previously held... […]
ROBERT FIGLIN was appointed deputy director of the Integrated Oncology Service Line at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. Previously, he was director of the Hematology Oncology Division at the institute. In his new role, Figlin will work with clinicians and investigators to unify the health system’s approach to treating cancer.The integration of cancer... […]
MOUNT SINAI received a $10 million grant from NCI to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms of acute graft-versus-host disease, a common side effect that occurs after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, and to develop novel therapeutic strategies for BMT patients with cancer that begin in the cells of blood-forming tissue or hematologic malignancies. James Ferrara,... […]
ADRIAN LEE was named director of the Institute for Precision Medicine, a joint effort by UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh.
NIH, as part of its national Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, has expanded a five-year funding award to The Scripps Research Institute from $120 million to $207 million. The award marks a significant increase in scope from the initial award announced in July and provides additional details about the network of partners in the TSRI-led... […]
THE DR. RALPH AND MARIAN FALK MEDICAL RESEARCH TRUST awarded $485,000 to research teams from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to study the effects of key genetic mutations in uveal melanoma. There are no FDA-approved therapies for metastatic UM and patient survival is poor. Julio Aguirre-Ghiso,... […]
THE AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION awarded 16 grants to support brain tumor research. This year’s funded projects focus on areas such as potential new therapies, novel imaging approaches, immunotherapy and metastatic disease. The American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant is a one-year, $50,000 grant supporting approaches that have the potential to change current diagnostic or... […]
SHIRLEY JOHNSON was named senior vice president of Nursing & Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Johnson was most recently senior vice president and Chief Nursing and Patient Care Services Officer at City of Hope. She has been recognized with the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer... […]
