LAURIE GLIMCHER was named president and CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
STEVE LIMENTANI was named vice president and medical director of Mission Cancer Services as well as chief research officer of Mission Health. Limentani is a clinical professor at the University of North Carolina. In 1995, Limentani moved to Carolinas Healthcare System and became medical director for clinical trials. One of the highlights of his tenure... […]
MANDI PRATT-CHAPMAN was named the associate center director for patient centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center. Pratt-Chapman will serve on the senior leadership team for the center, helping to create a patient support services program, which will build on programs that she developed during the past several years as director of... […]
ROBERT CALIFF was appointed commissioner of the FDA, following a successful confirmation vote in the Senate. Califf has served as deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco since January 2015. Califf was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in September 2015. Since then, his confirmation has been opposed and blocked by a handful... […]
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION expanded its research program with a new collaborative breast cancer funding model, the BCRF Investigator-Initiated Drug Research Program. The received a three-year, $15 million grant from Pfizer to support this effort, as well as access to Pfizer’s portfolio of products. “It will encourage more creative, academic-driven research and give more... […]
THE LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION delivered $7.2 million in grants to address the rising cost of pharmaceutical drugs.
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATES of Northern Virginia joined the Inova Medical Group. The practice, which brings five physicians, four nurse practitioners or physician assistants, and more than 50 support staff members, will have a brand new outpatient infusion clinic, outpatient pharmacy and lab, and outpatient research facility. The newly named Inova Hematology Oncology will... […]
MARCIA MCNUTT was elected to a six-year term as president of the National Academy of Sciences. McNutt is editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. William Press, the Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Professor in the departments of computer science and integrative biology at UT Austin, was elected treasurer. Also, four members were elected... […]
THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY announced four winners of its most prestigious cancer research awards, The Awards for Excellence. Mary Gospodarowicz received the O. Harold Warwick Prize for outstanding achievements in cancer control research. Gospodarowicz is the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre’s medical director and the first Canadian immediate past president of the Union for International Cancer... […]
JEANNIE LEE is the 2016 winner of the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for uncovering the functions of long, noncoding RNA in epigenetic regulation. Her work was selected by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for accelerating the understanding of mechanisms driving epigenetic regulation, which involves changes in gene function without changing the... […]
