UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center received $11 million in SPORE funding from NCI to support its Kidney Cancer Program.
NATASCIA MARINO was named a Breast Cancer Research Foundation Investigator at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Marino, also an assistant research professor of medicine, is an investigator with the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center. Her research focuses on the normal breast and how it relates to the development […]
CHRISTOPHER MANLEY and KRISTEN SCULLY MANLEY joined Fox Chase Cancer Center. Christopher Manley will serve as the director of interventional pulmonology in the Department of Medicine, and Kristen Scully Manley will serve as a hospitalist in the department of medicine. “Dr. Manley’s expertise in pulmonary medicine makes him the perfect candidate for our new director […]
PIERRE MASSION will direct the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Initiative. Massion is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Medicine, an Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and co-leader of the VICC Cancer Health Outcomes and Control Research Program. “The prevention of cancer and the development of more effective strategies to detect cancer precursors […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE, partnered with UPMC CancerCancer, received a contract from NCI to perform preclinical research for the development of new cancer drugs. This commitment could bring up to $10 million in research projects to UPCI over the next five years. Julie Eiseman, professor of pharmacology and chemical biology, and Jan Beumer, […]
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE received $100 million for a portion of its interest in royalties related to its Programmed Death Ligand-1 intellectual property. CPPIB Credit Europe S.à r.l., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, paid $100 million upfront, and has committed to pay up to $68 million in additional payments, subject to […]
MERCK plans to build a new campus in Burlington, Mass., which will serve as a major hub for its North American life science business. The 280,000-square-foot facility will include a customer collaboration laboratory and training center, as well as office space. “This new and more expansive Merck campus gives us a unique, multi-use life science... […]
NIH will work with Wondros, a Los Angeles-based creative communications and design agency, to design and implement the communications strategy for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program. Wondros is working with other academic institutions, private sector and federal agencies to implement communications strategies that appeal to different populations, ensuring that the PMI has a broad... […]
VY DINH and MARIANA KHAWAND-AZOULAI joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida. Dinh is a hospital oncologist, and Khawand-Azoulai will provide outpatient palliative care, including pain and symptom management and psychosocial support. Most recently, Dinh served as a staff physician for hematology, oncology and medicine at the Miami VA Medical Center, as well... […]
RAJESWARI NAGARATHINAM joined the department of pathology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, focusing on both surgical pathology and cytopathology. After earning her medical degree at Coimbatore Medical College in India, Nagarathinam completed residency training in pathology at Madras Medical College, also in India. She completed a residency in pathology at the University of Oklahoma Health... […]
