COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and New York-Presbyterian said that their shared medical campus in Washington Heights will now be called Columbia University Herbert and Florence Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center for donors Herbert and Florence Irving. The Irvings’ donations and commitments over time to Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian will exceed $300... […]
THE CANCER PROGRESS REPORT released by the American Association for Cancer Research argues that although funded research continues to spur progress against cancer, accelerating the pace of progress will require robust, sustained, and predictable annual funding increases for NIH, NCI, and FDA.
SPECTRUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC. is under investigation by national securities law firm Faruqi & Faruqi LLP for potential securities fraud. The firm said it’s investigating whether the company and its executives violated federal securities laws by issuing materially misleading information about the company. Specifically, on Sept. 14, the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted against... […]
REP. MICHAEL BURGESS (R-TX) received the American Society of Clinical Oncology‘s first-ever ASCO Congressional Leadership Award for his work to support policies related to cancer research and treatment. The new, annual award honors a member of Congress who is a consistent champion for patients and survivors of cancer, their families, and health care teams. Burgess... […]
90 CANCER GROUPS AND CANCER CENTERS, in a sign-on letter, urged the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to rescind proposed reimbursement cuts for lung cancer screening in its proposed rule on the 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The proposal lowers the reimbursement for low-dose CT lung cancer screenings by 44 percent, from $112.49... […]
BRIAN GOLDSTEIN was named chief health system officer of UW Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the University of Washington. He is the executive vice president and chief operating officer for the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Goldstein will be responsible for overseeing the operations of the clinical entities of UW Medicine and... […]
THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK is extending its collaboration with New Century Health to integrate the NCCN Imaging Appropriate Use Criteria into New Century Health’s value-based clinical decision support platform. This will provide expanded access to imaging recommendations as derived from the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. New Century Health has been a licensee... […]
THE NCI TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM published the full list of FY2016 Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grantees. The SPORE program uses the P50 grant funding mechanism to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary, translational cancer multi-project research. SPOREs are primarily focused on organ site disease, but also on themes that cut across organ sites. Including the 2016 grantees,... […]
WILLIAM KAELIN, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza received the 2016 Lasker Award for basic medical research. Ralf Bartenschlager, Charles Rice, and Michael Sofia received the award for clinical research, and Bruce Alberts for special achievement. The awards, which carry an honorarium of $250,000 for each category, will be presented on Friday, Sept. 23, in New... […]
ERIC FEARON was named director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
