WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE and New York Genome Center will receive a NCI grant worth $490,000 annually for five years to support a joint cancer genomics data center for the research and clinical interpretation of tumors. The WCM-NYGC center will perform computational analyses examining DNA and RNA to understand the role of different mutations and to... […]
NCCN announced the launch of Just Bag It: The NCCN Campaign for Safe Vincristine Handling. This campaign encourages health care providers to adopt a policy to always dilute and administer vincristine in a mini IV-drip bag to prevent a deadly medical error. If vincristine is mistakenly administered into the spinal fluid, it is uniformly fatal,... […]
PETER O'DWYER was elected group co-chair elect of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group.
SUSAN RAWL, professor of adult health at the Indiana University School of Nursing and a researcher at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, received nearly $2.6 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to compare interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening among underserved patients with limited resources. Rawl’s study was selected for PCORI... […]
VALERIE ARMSTEAD joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. Armstead joins Fox Chase from Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, where she served as a staff anesthesiologist and a professor on the faculty of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('.people-thumb + p > span.has-red-100-color, .people-thumb +... […]
INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM and the University of Virginia agreed to form a research and education partnership to collaborate on research, medical education, and the recruitment of researchers, scientists and investigators.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY and Innovative Oncology Business Solutions Inc. announced a collaboration, ASCO COME HOME, an oncology medical home program designed to transition community oncology practices from volume-based to value-based care by structuring reimbursement around the full range of services needed by patients with cancer. ASCO COME HOME will also prepare oncology... […]
MICHAEL O’CONNELL received the 2016 Clinical Research Award at the Association of Community Cancer Centers 33rd National Oncology Conference in St. Louis. The award recognizes O’Connell’s research on the oncology patient, family and the community. O’Connell has helped direct numerous studies that have resulted in better treatment protocols for cancer of the colon and rectum,... […]
SCHULMAN IRB will launch its new Central Oncology Review division at PRIM&R’s 2016 Advancing Ethical Research Conference. The launch of COR represents Schulman’s response to requests from institutional research centers looking for a more advanced level of partnership and service integration. COR will be led by Michele Russell-Einhorn, vice president of oncology services, and Judith... […]
S. GAIL ECKHARDT was named the inaugural director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. She was also appointed associate dean of the medical school. The appointment was made possible by a $6 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.... […]
