GREG SIMON was named executive director of the national moonshot cancer initiative by Vice President Joe Biden. Previously, he helped start the charity FasterCures in 2003. In 2009, he became senior vice president for patient engagement at Pfizer. Most recently, he was chief executive of Poliwogg, a financial services company. Simon was diagnosed with leukemia... […]
PETER PAUL YU was named physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute. Yu, a medical oncologist and hematologist, comes to Hartford HealthCare from Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, where he has worked since 1989. Since 2008, he has served as the organization’s director of cancer research. In 2015, Yu served as president of the... […]
DINAH SINGER and WARREN KIBBE were named acting deputy directors of NCI.
MAHA HUSSAIN will join the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University as associate director for clinical sciences research, effective Sept. 1.
Matthew Ong, associate editor of The Cancer Letter, was selected as a finalist in the 2015 Best in Business Awards for Outstanding Business Journalism. The Society of American Business Editors and Writers recognized Ong’s series, “How Medical Devices Do Harm,” as the first runner up in the Print Weeklies/Biweeklies Investigative category. In a two-year investigation, […]
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER submitted its plan to comply with Senate Bill 11, a state law commonly known as Campus Carry, to the University of Texas System and its Board of Regents, as a public institution of higher education. Under the bill, any individual holding a valid concealed handgun license will be allowed to carry […]
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY received a $1.58 million, four-year grant from The Merck Foundation to implement a comprehensive Patient Navigation Program in three U.S. communities where substantial cancer care disparities exist. Sites selected to participate in the community-based program include the Queens Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y.; the Phoenix Cancer Center/Maricopa Integrated Health System in […]
DENNIS PATRICK MEEHAN HUGHES, a former pediatric oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, pleaded guilty in federal court to collecting child pornography. Sentencing is set for June 1. Hughes, 49, resigned from MD Anderson after being arrested in June 2015, and later turned in his license to the Texas Medical Board, according to the Houston […]
JENNIFER PIETENPOL was honored with the Medical Research Advancement Award during the T.J. Martell Foundation Nashville Honors Gala. Pietenpol is the B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology and director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The award is in recognition of Pietenpol’s career as a cancer researcher. She focuses on the p53 family of proteins and breast […]
THE KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE recently promoted five scientific staff members: Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer, Michele Cote, Justin Klamerus, Larry Matherly, and Hayley Thompson. Beebe-Dimmer was appointed co-leader of the Population Studies and Disparities Research Program at Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine. She is an associate professor in the Department of Oncology. Her […]
