REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. announced three of the winners of the fourth annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation, an award designed to acknowledge, reward and foster talented early-career biomedical scientists. Altogether, Regeneron will award $155,000 in prize money to 10 awardees and two institutions. Two winners of the Regeneron Prize will each receive a $50,000 cash... […]
MICHELE RUSSELL-EINHORN will join Schulman IRB as vice president for oncology services, effective Sept. 1. Russell-Einhorn will build and lead Schulman’s Central Oncology Review division, to be launched later this year. As senior director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Office for Human Research Studies, Russell-Einhorn managed and oversaw five scientific review committees and seven institutional review... […]
NCI announced the 13 recipients of its Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards.
DANIEL SHASHA joined Northside Radiation Oncology Consultants. Shasha is medical director of the radiation oncology program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. Shasha has more than 20 years of practice experience in the radiation management of prostate cancer. Most recently, Shasha served as director of genitourinary oncology with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York. Shasha... […]
JEFF BOYD received the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance. Boyd is the director of translational research and genomic medicine for Miami Cancer Institute. The award is named for molecular biologist Rosalind Elsie Franklin, who played a vital role in discovering the structure of DNA.... […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Comprehensive Cancer Center and Trovagene Inc. initiated a collaborative research program focused on the Trovera KRAS ctDNA liquid biopsy test in pancreatic cancer. “KRAS gene mutations occur in over 90 percent of pancreatic carcinomas. There is an urgent need for targeted therapies and a precision diagnostic test to identify who would... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY named 10 members as ASTRO Fellows, in the 10th year that the designation has been awarded. The 2016 class will be recognized at an awards ceremony during ASTRO’s annual meeting Sept. 25-28, in Boston. Fellows have been an active or emeritus member of ASTRO for at least 15 years,... […]
MARK SOCINSKI was named executive medical director of the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute. He will oversee the coordination of clinical cancer services for the Florida Hospital network. He will also be a member of the institute's Thoracic Oncology Program.
STEVEN PAUL was elected chairman of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. Paul succeeds Charles Sanders, who has served as chairman since 1997 and will remain a member of the board. In addition, Thomas Insel and Paul Stoffels were elected as new board members. Paul is president and CEO at Voyager Therapeutics, Inc., […]
HAAKON RAGDE was named the 2016 Honorary Member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the highest honor ASTRO bestows on members in disciplines other than radiation oncology, radiobiology or radiation physics.
