ASHANI WEERATNA, associate professor and program leader in the Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, was named the Ira Brind Associate Professor at the Wistar Institute. Weeraratna’s primary research focus is how melanoma metastasizes and how changes in the tumor microenvironment might initiate the disease’s spread or make it resistant to treatment. She is also a... […]
LEVI GARRAWAY was named senior vice president, Global Development & Medical Affairs, for Eli Lilly and Co.‘s Oncology business. He will succeed Richard Gaynor, who is retiring, on Jan. 1, 2017. Garraway is an associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, an associate... […]
RUTH BROWNE was named new president and chief executive officer of the Ronald McDonald House. Browne joins Ronald McDonald House New York from the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, where she served as CEO since 2004. Browne will assume the role on Sept. 19, 2016. Browne will lead the organization throughout its $23.6 million... […]
THE CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S/UC HEALTH PROTON THERAPY CENTER opened with the ProBeam System from Varian Medical Systems. Treatments will begin in September. The center has two treatment rooms offering image-guided intensity-modulated proton therapy, as well as one room dedicated to research. One treatment room will be devoted to pediatric patients and the other to adult patients.... […]
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Siteman Cancer Center received a Specialized Program of Research Excellence five-year grant of $10.4 million to lead a national group of experts in collaborative pancreatic cancer research.
MICHAEL JAN BARTEL joined the Department of Medicine as a gastroenterologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Bartel earned his medical degree at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in Germany. He completed his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. In 2012, he joined the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., as... […]
BASSEL EL-RAYES, associate director of clinical research at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, was selected to hold the John Kauffman Family Professorship for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The newly endowed position was created to support a researcher in the field of pancreatic cancer research and assist with the further development of Winship’s gastrointestinal (GI) cancer... […]
JACQUES GALIPEAU joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center on Sept. 1. Galipeau came from the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University, where he founded the Emory Personalized Immunotherapy Center. Prior to that, he spent most of his career at McGill University in Montreal. Galipeau will be the first-ever assistant dean... […]
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Hollings Cancer Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences were awarded an $8 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities and NCI to establish the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center in Precision Medicine and Minority Men’s Health at the Medical University of South Carolina.... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY selected 44 cancer researchers and clinicians to receive a total of $36,500 in individual awards for studies being presented at the society’s annual scientific meeting. The recipients will be recognized at ASTRO’s 58th Annual Meeting, to be held Sept. 25-28, 2016, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The... […]
