Academy President Donald W. Landry presents the American Academy of Sciences and Letters medal to Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Director Michael Birrer.Michael J. Birrer, director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Medical Sciences, has been inducted as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Onboard AI and Cedars-Sinai will collaborate to deploy an automated, AI-native governance platform that health systems can use to streamline and strengthen the evaluation, approval, and monitoring of AI solutions.
UCLA Health has established the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Theranostics—the first of its kind in the United States. The new department will integrate advanced imaging and therapy, accelerate scientific discovery, and advance precision health at UCLA Health.
ChristianaCare’s Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research has established an organoid core.
The governing board of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas met in Austin on Nov. 19 and approved 73 grants totaling almost $154 million.
Christine M. Lovly will spearhead the development of City of Hope’s new national thoracic oncology program, effective Jan. 1, 2026.
Thomas J. George, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and expert in clinical research, has been named interim director of the University of Florida Health Cancer Institute, effective Nov. 17.
Researchers at the School of Dentistry at UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of the University of Texas at San Antonio, have been awarded three multi-year grants totaling $6 million from NIH to address treatment and pain management for oral cancer.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has launched a $2.5 billion comprehensive philanthropic campaign: Only Possible Here, The Campaign to End Cancer.
Crystal Cruises announced a fundraising initiative for the James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Together, Crystal and MD Anderson will unite the worlds of travel and science in a collaboration designed to inspire, educate, and advance the global mission to end cancer.
