JOEL HELMKE was named senior vice president of operations at City of Hope. Helmke served as division administrator of internal medicine and managed four clinical centers and nine academic departments at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he held leadership positions for 14 years. In 2014, he was named corporate vice president of oncology services for... […]
LARRY KWAK was awarded the 2016 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine. Kwak is director of City of Hope’s Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center and the Dr. Michael Friedman Professor in Translational Medicine. The Ho-Am Prize recognizes people of Korean heritage who have made contributions in clinical and research areas, and is widely considered one of the Nobel... […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Carbone Cancer Center was elected as the 27th member institution of NCCN. “UWCCC’s esteemed cancer center indeed brings unique attributes to the alliance, particularly its comprehensive palliative care program which includes an in-patient unit and consultation service, children’s hospital consultative service, and an outpatient onco-palliative care clinic,” said Robert Carlson, CEO... […]
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and TESARO Inc. announced a collaboration to discover and develop small molecule product candidates against immuno-oncology targets, through the cancer center’s Institute for Applied Cancer Science. Under the agreement, TESARO will receive exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize any small molecule product candidates that result from this collaboration. MD Anderson... […]
HYUNDAI HOPE ON WHEELS announced four $1 million grants to Children’s Oncology Group institutions: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center and the University of Florida. Through the Hyundai Quantum Grant, each institution will receive $250,000 per year over the course of four years to fund their research on... […]
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY launched the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with $125 million in donations. The institute was founded with two $50 million donations, one from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and one from philanthropist Sidney Kimmel. An additional $25 million was raised from other supporters. Drew Pardoll will serve as the institute’s... […]
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.
