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... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY elected five new officers to the society’s board of directors, including president-elect, secretary-treasurer-elect, and vice-chairs of three of ASTRO’s five councils: Clinical Affairs and Quality, Education, and Government Relations. Terms for all positions begin at ASTRO’s annual meeting, Sept. 25-28 in Boston. The new board members are: President-Elect Paul... […]
REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. announced three of the winners of the fourth annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation, an award designed to acknowledge, reward and foster talented early-career biomedical scientists. Altogether, Regeneron will award $155,000 in prize money to 10 awardees and two institutions. Two winners of the Regeneron Prize will each receive a $50,000 cash... […]
MICHELE RUSSELL-EINHORN will join Schulman IRB as vice president for oncology services, effective Sept. 1. Russell-Einhorn will build and lead Schulman’s Central Oncology Review division, to be launched later this year. As senior director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Office for Human Research Studies, Russell-Einhorn managed and oversaw five scientific review committees and seven institutional review... […]
