The American Association for Cancer Research has named its newest class of grant recipients.
NCI renewed the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center’s “comprehensive” designation and continued grant support for another five years.
Christopher Hourigan, a senior investigator and chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies at the National Institutes of Health, will join Virginia Tech as a professor with the institute and director of its Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Center in Washington, D.C.
Antonio C. Wolff, chair of the Breast Cancer Committee for the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, will co-lead the Breast Cancer Steering Committee for NCI. He began the three-year term on April 1.
Anna Berkenblit, a clinical oncologist and drug developer, was named the first-ever chief scientific and medical officer of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Jonathan Chernoff and William G. KaelinWilliam G. Kaelin Jr., physician, scientist, and Nobel laureate, was recognized at Fox Chase Cancer Center with the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the center’s highest distinction.
Ellen V. Sigal, Marlene A. Malek, Scott LaGanga, and Tim Lawrence will be honored at the 36th Annual Lombardi Gala, an annual event dedicated to raising funds for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Etta D. Pisano was named senior portfolio lead at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
Nirag Jhala was named chief of the Division of Oncologic Pathology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health.
City of Hope has opened a Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program at City of Hope Cancer Center Atlanta.
