JUDY KEEN was named director of scientific affairs of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
CARMEN SOLÓRZANO was named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Solórzano is a professor of Surgery and director of the Endocrine Surgery Center.
MINESH MEHTA joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida as deputy director and chief of radiation oncology.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL's Health Care Initiative launched the Precision Trials Challenge, a competition to bring precision diagnostics and therapies to market more quickly.
UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH selected e+CancerCare, a national operator of outpatient cancer care centers, to operate the UC San Diego Health - Chula Vista radiation oncology facility.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and AbbVie formed a three-year collaboration to perform preclinical and clinical studies evaluating immuno-oncology therapies. AbbVie and MD Anderson will each assign two scientists to a joint scientific committee, which will decide on which projects to pursue. The collaboration will begin with projects driven by AbbVie Biotherapeutics. Future projects will draw... […]
THE NEW YORK GENOME CENTER received a $100 million challenge grant from the Simons Foundation and The Carson Family Charitable Trust. The two organizations will match every dollar that NYGC raises over the course of the next three years. The Simons Foundation is chaired by James Simons, who also serves as an NYGC board director.... […]
MYLIN TORRES was named director of the Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. She succeeds Ruth O’Regan, who now heads the University of Wisconsin Division of Hematology and Oncology. Torres is an associate professor in Emory’s Department of Radiation Oncology and a member of Winship’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program.... […]
MARY-CLAIRE KING was awarded the Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. King’s research was recognized by the National Foundation for Cancer Research for providing the first evidence of genetic predisposition to breast cancer. She is the American Cancer Society Research Professor of Genetics and Medicine (Medical Genetics) at the University of Washington in Seattle.... […]
JAMES WILLSON was named chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, effective March 1. Willson is the associate dean of oncology programs, and professor and director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
