NCI announced the 13 recipients of its Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards.
DANIEL SHASHA joined Northside Radiation Oncology Consultants. Shasha is medical director of the radiation oncology program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. Shasha has more than 20 years of practice experience in the radiation management of prostate cancer. Most recently, Shasha served as director of genitourinary oncology with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York. Shasha... […]
JEFF BOYD received the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance. Boyd is the director of translational research and genomic medicine for Miami Cancer Institute. The award is named for molecular biologist Rosalind Elsie Franklin, who played a vital role in discovering the structure of DNA.... […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Comprehensive Cancer Center and Trovagene Inc. initiated a collaborative research program focused on the Trovera KRAS ctDNA liquid biopsy test in pancreatic cancer. “KRAS gene mutations occur in over 90 percent of pancreatic carcinomas. There is an urgent need for targeted therapies and a precision diagnostic test to identify who would... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY named 10 members as ASTRO Fellows, in the 10th year that the designation has been awarded. The 2016 class will be recognized at an awards ceremony during ASTRO’s annual meeting Sept. 25-28, in Boston. Fellows have been an active or emeritus member of ASTRO for at least 15 years,... […]
MARK SOCINSKI was named executive medical director of the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute. He will oversee the coordination of clinical cancer services for the Florida Hospital network. He will also be a member of the institute's Thoracic Oncology Program.
STEVEN PAUL was elected chairman of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. Paul succeeds Charles Sanders, who has served as chairman since 1997 and will remain a member of the board. In addition, Thomas Insel and Paul Stoffels were elected as new board members. Paul is president and CEO at Voyager Therapeutics, Inc., […]
HAAKON RAGDE was named the 2016 Honorary Member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the highest honor ASTRO bestows on members in disciplines other than radiation oncology, radiobiology or radiation physics.
THE WISTAR INSTITUTE has entered into an agreement with the Gene Editing Institute at Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, expanding their previous partnership established in 2011. The Gene Editing Institute will be integrated into Wistar’s Molecular Screening Facility. The Gene Editing Institute will retain its management structure and will remain […]
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM and Valley Health System plan to form a partnership that will enable Valley to access Mount Sinai’s roster of clinical trials, as well as develop new programs and services. In December 2015, Valley and Mount Sinai announced plans to collaborate on clinical programs, research and educational offerings. Mount Sinai and Valley […]
