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.
MICHAEL ZINNER was named CEO and executive medical director of Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY and several colorectal cancer care advocacy groups urged Congress to pass the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act, which would provide Medicare coverage for seniors who choose those screening exams.
ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions launched the Human Dark Proteome Initiative, to focus on the portion of the proteome that does not adopt defined 3D structures.
SIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER at Johns Hopkins University made several personnel changes.
CITY OF HOPE announced several appointments to its faculty.
STUART ORKIN received Boston Children's Hospital's Lifetime Impact Award at the hospital's third annual Global Pediatric Innovation Summit.
