SHARON BYERS was named chief development and marketing officer of the American Cancer Society. This is an expanded role responsible for ensuring brand relevance, effective strategic alliances and overall revenue growth to continue to advance the fight against cancer on a national and global scale, the society said. Since November 2015, Byers has served as... […]
GRACE LU-YAO joined the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia as the associate director for population science and the vice chair and professor in the department of medical oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, with a joint appointment at Jefferson College of Population Health. Lu-Yao’s appointment follows the launching of the Center... […]
VANDERBILT University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University will receive continued federal funding for collaborative cancer research through the renewal of U54 Partners in Eliminating Cancer Disparities Grants from NCI. This research partnership (which added TSU in recent years), which has received funding for 17 years, is designed to identify the causes... […]
NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that a partnership formed during his New York State Trade Mission to Cuba last year has resulted in a milestone of international collaboration: the launch of a U.S. clinical trial of a Cuban immunotherapy developed by the Center of Molecular Immunology for lung cancer. Roswell Park Cancer Institute has... […]
CAROL BURKE was elected the 2016-2017 president of the American College of Gastroenterology. She takes her position as president during the College’s 81st) annual scientific meeting, held this week in Las Vegas. Burke is vice chair of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and holds joint appointments in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Colorectal... […]
LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC. awarded ATCC a two-year base option subcontract to manage and operate one of the largest repositories of biological specimens in the world, in Frederick, Md. The subcontract is valued up to $32 million over a seven-year period if all options are executed. NCI. Under this subcontract, ATCC will receive, store, and... […]
CHARLES FUCHS was named director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, effective Jan. 1, 2017.
THE ROBERT H. LURIE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER of Northwestern University and Tempus, a health-tech company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer care, announced a partnership that will make Tempus as a preferred partner to handle genomic sequencing and analysis as part of Lurie Cancer Center’s new OncoSET initiative. Lurie Cancer Center launched the OncoSET (Sequence,... […]
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE and the California Institute for Biomedical Research announced the signing of a strategic affiliation that combines the two organizations into a new biomedical research entity with the tools and know-how to rapidly translate its scientific discoveries into life-saving medicines for the public benefit. The union of these two non-profit organizations–both led... […]
MARCIO FAGUNDES and Michael Chuong joined the Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida’s integrated Radiation Oncology Department. Fagundes will serve as the department’s medical director and vice chair. Before joining Miami Cancer Institute, Dr. Fagundes was medical director of the Provision Center for Proton Therapy in Knoxville, Tenn. Chuong will serve as lead... […]
