MERCK plans to build a new campus in Burlington, Mass., which will serve as a major hub for its North American life science business. The 280,000-square-foot facility will include a customer collaboration laboratory and training center, as well as office space. “This new and more expansive Merck campus gives us a unique, multi-use life science... […]
NIH will work with Wondros, a Los Angeles-based creative communications and design agency, to design and implement the communications strategy for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program. Wondros is working with other academic institutions, private sector and federal agencies to implement communications strategies that appeal to different populations, ensuring that the PMI has a broad... […]
VY DINH and MARIANA KHAWAND-AZOULAI joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida. Dinh is a hospital oncologist, and Khawand-Azoulai will provide outpatient palliative care, including pain and symptom management and psychosocial support. Most recently, Dinh served as a staff physician for hematology, oncology and medicine at the Miami VA Medical Center, as well... […]
RAJESWARI NAGARATHINAM joined the department of pathology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, focusing on both surgical pathology and cytopathology. After earning her medical degree at Coimbatore Medical College in India, Nagarathinam completed residency training in pathology at Madras Medical College, also in India. She completed a residency in pathology at the University of Oklahoma Health... […]
ABHISHEK APHALE was appointed assistant professor of dermatology at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Aphale specializes in Mohs surgery and reconstruction and cutaneous oncology. His research interests include squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma and rare cutaneous tumors. Aphale earned his medical degree from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. He... […]
CHARLES SIMONE II was named medical director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center, effective in November. Simone will help define and implement processes ensuring that MPTC is integrated into the radiation oncology program and the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland Medical Center/System and the university’s school of medicine. He will... […]
SUSAN PITT received a Young Investigator Award from UW Carbone Cancer Center. Pitt is an assistant professor of surgery who specializes in endocrine surgery and thyroid cancer. She joined the cancer center in August 2015. Pitt will use the award to study why providers often overtreat thyroid microcancers, those that measure one centimeter or less... […]
THE UC SANTA CRUZ Genomics Institute received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the St. Baldrick's Foundation, in support of the institute's Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative.
USC NORRIS Comprehensive Cancer Center entered into a collaboration agreement with Trovagene Inc. to establish a standardized framework for the use of Trovera urine liquid biopsy testing at USC as well as to define practical considerations and best practices for liquid biopsy testing from urine. The collaboration will also explore the development of clinical treatment... […]
THE BONNIE J. ADDARIO Lung Cancer Foundation and the Van Auken Private Foundation announced the recipients of the second annual ALCF-VAPF Young Innovators Team Award. The two organizations awarded $500,000 to a team of researchers exploring the causes of chemotherapy resistant small-cell lung cancer and identifying new inhibitors. The winning proposal, by David MacPherson, of... […]
