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... […]
JOAN SCHILLER was named deputy director of clinical investigation of the Inova Dwight and Martha Schar Cancer Institute. Schiller is the former division chief of Hematology/Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center where she lead UTSW’s process to become an NCI-designated cancer center and then an NCI-designated comprehensive center in 2015. She was also deputy director... […]
THE COMMISSION ON CANCER of the American College of Surgeons granted a second installment of 2015 Outstanding Achievement Awards to 27 accredited cancer programs. Award criteria were based on accreditation surveys conducted during the second half of 2015. The award recognizes cancer programs that achieve excellence meeting the CoC Standards. The awardees are: Fairbanks Memorial... […]
ESPN’s 2015 Jimmy V Week for Cancer Research raised $3.2 million for The V Foundation for Cancer Research—a million more than the $2.2 million raised in 2014. In nine years, Jimmy V Week has raised $13.7 million for cancer research. Jimmy V Week ran from Dec. 2-8, 2015 and introduced the awareness campaign Your Fight... […]
THE MIAMI CANCER INSTITUTE at Baptist Health South Florida joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, making it the third health care system to enlist in the national collaboration.
