CITY of HOPE announced three recent hires.
AARP published a report detailing how retail prices for over one hundred widely used specialty prescription drugs surged skyward by nearly 11 percent in 2013, surpassing the median income of an American family.
THE INTERNATIONAL CANCER GENOME CONSORTIUM made 1,200 encrypted cancer whole genome sequences available on the Amazon Web Services Cloud for access by cancer researchers worldwide.
STEVEN ROSEN, provost and chief scientific officer for City of Hope, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund, the largest organization in North America devoted solely to supporting cancer research in Israel.
ALEXANDRA LEVINE was awarded the Hospital Physician Leadership Award by the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Levine is the chief medical officer of City of Hope.
MICHAEL LANG was named chief product development officer for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Lang will lead CPRIT's product development research program.
PHILIP KANTOFF was named chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
THE PAN-MASS CHALLENGE announced a gift of $45 million to support adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, bringing the PMC's 36-year fundraising total to a half-billion dollars raised since the organization's inception in 1980.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and Codiak BioSciences formed license and sponsored research agreements. Codiak also recently completed the first portion of $80+ million Series A and B financing.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY published 11 principles and detailed guidance to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as it implements the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Alternative Payment Models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization on Act of 2015, which replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate formula.
