THE SCRIPPS MERCY O'TOOLE Breast Care Center opened on the campus of Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego. The $5.3 million facility is located on the second floor of the Scripps Medical Building, and replaces the temporary breast health facility that opened last year near Scripps Mercy Hospital.
CHRIS4LIFE COLON CANCER FOUNDATION and Smart Patients launched DATABLUE, a clinical trial database that helps colon cancer patients navigate trial processes on June 4.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY published Practical Tips for the Oncology Practice 6th Edition, a comprehensive business and management resource for oncology practices on June 8.
KAREN KNUDSEN was named director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH and Bayer HealthCare announced a partnership to expand AACR's Basic Cancer Research Fellowship Program for 2015.
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS named 22 early-career researchers as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences—as well as five scholars for cancer research, funded in partnership with the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust.
THE CANCER GENOME ATLAS Research Network, including more than 300 researchers from 44 institutions, found that molecular diagnostics are much more precise and reproducible than looking at tissue under a microscope for classification of diffuse gliomas.
MARY BECKERLE was appointed to the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson. Beckerle will serve on the board's Science, Technology & Sustainability Committee.
ROBERTO PILI joined the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. Pili will direct the genitourinary research program at the cancer center and serve as the medical director of the genitourinary clinical program at the IU Health Simon Cancer Center.
NICOLE ROBINSON will lead the Industry Relations and Technology Transfer office at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Robinson will begin her role as vice president of industry relations and business development on July 27.
