STAND UP TO CANCER published a series of Certification for Nursing Education training modules, with the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, focused on immunotherapy. The first web-based CNE modules will be available in July. In its first round, the program will seek to train 25 nurses working in immunotherapy. The program was […]
TOM ANDRUS was named chief digital officer and executive vice president of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Most recently, Andrus was general manager and senior vice president of AXS.com, a division of AEG, building a new ticketing company. Previously, he was senior vice president of product at MySpace, where he led the product, design, mobile, and […]
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY and CVS Health announced a three-year, $3.6 million initiative to provide grants to 125 institutions of higher learning to help accelerate and expand the number of 100 percent smoke- and tobacco-free college and university campuses throughout the United States.
THE CANADIAN CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS NETWORK unveiled a new national campaign to raise awareness of cancer clinical trials in Canada, ahead of International Clinical Trials Day on May 20. The Ask Me Campaign will be introduced at more than 60 cancer centers across Canada and include hospital staff wearing “Ask Me” buttons, as well as... […]
DAVID WEINER received the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professorship for Cancer Research. Weiner is executive vice president of The Wistar Institute and director of The Wistar Institute Vaccine Center. The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust is a private foundation established through the will of William Wikoff Smith. The Trust provides grants in three areas: medical research... […]
RICHARD O’REILLY was named the inaugural recipient of The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Prize. This new award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of pediatric oncology. O’Reilly is chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at MSK. He pioneered the development of... […]
SEAN PARKER received the Pontifical Key Philanthropy Award at the Vatican, presented by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and Robin Smith, president of the Stem for Life Foundation. This recognition was announced during The Third International Conference on the Progress of Regenerative Medicine and Its Cultural Impact, held in Vatican... […]
THE PERSHING SQUARE SOHN Cancer Research Alliance announced seven winners of the third annual Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Each will receive $200,000 in funding per year for up to three years. In addition to six winners funded by the alliance, a partnership with The New York Community Trust supported... […]
DOUGLAS LEVINE was named director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, effective May 15. Levine joins NYU Langone from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as an attending physician and head of the Gynecology Research Laboratory. He also served as... […]
ABBVIE will acquire Stemcentrx and its lead late-stage asset rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T) currently in registrational trials for small cell lung cancer. The transaction is expected to close in second-quarter of this year. Rova-T is a novel biomarker-specific therapy that is derived from cancer stem cells and targets delta-like protein 3 that is expressed in more […]
