RUTH BROWNE was named new president and chief executive officer of the Ronald McDonald House. Browne joins Ronald McDonald House New York from the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, where she served as CEO since 2004. Browne will assume the role on Sept. 19, 2016. Browne will lead the organization throughout its $23.6 million... […]
THE CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S/UC HEALTH PROTON THERAPY CENTER opened with the ProBeam System from Varian Medical Systems. Treatments will begin in September. The center has two treatment rooms offering image-guided intensity-modulated proton therapy, as well as one room dedicated to research. One treatment room will be devoted to pediatric patients and the other to adult patients.... […]
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Siteman Cancer Center received a Specialized Program of Research Excellence five-year grant of $10.4 million to lead a national group of experts in collaborative pancreatic cancer research.
MICHAEL JAN BARTEL joined the Department of Medicine as a gastroenterologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Bartel earned his medical degree at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in Germany. He completed his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. In 2012, he joined the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., as... […]
BASSEL EL-RAYES, associate director of clinical research at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, was selected to hold the John Kauffman Family Professorship for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The newly endowed position was created to support a researcher in the field of pancreatic cancer research and assist with the further development of Winship’s gastrointestinal (GI) cancer... […]
JACQUES GALIPEAU joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center on Sept. 1. Galipeau came from the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University, where he founded the Emory Personalized Immunotherapy Center. Prior to that, he spent most of his career at McGill University in Montreal. Galipeau will be the first-ever assistant dean... […]
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Hollings Cancer Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences were awarded an $8 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities and NCI to establish the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center in Precision Medicine and Minority Men’s Health at the Medical University of South Carolina.... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY selected 44 cancer researchers and clinicians to receive a total of $36,500 in individual awards for studies being presented at the society’s annual scientific meeting. The recipients will be recognized at ASTRO’s 58th Annual Meeting, to be held Sept. 25-28, 2016, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The... […]
PEREGRINE PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. said that the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Oncology Research Program (ORP) awarded three grants to investigators to support research of bavituximab in combination with other therapeutics for the treatment of glioblastoma, head and neck cancer, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Funding for the three investigator-initiated clinical studies will take place through a $2... […]
FRANK VRIONIS was named director of Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Marcus Neuroscience Institute. He will assume his new duties on Oct. 1. Vrionis serves as chief of neurosurgery at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Oncology at the University of South Florida. During his 16-year tenure, he initiated a host of... […]
