GEORGETOWN LOMBARDI Comprehensive Cancer Center and John Theurer Cancer Center, part of Hackensack University Medical Center, developed a joint cancer research agenda as part of a multi-year plan to form a NCI-recognized cancer consortium.
ACT for NIH added seven members to its advisory committee.
SYNEXUS opened three dedicated research centers in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, bringing the total to nine centers in Eastern Europe and a total network of 25 across Europe and Africa.
MARYANN ROEFARO was named co-chair of the Community Oncology Alliance Administrators' Network.
CITY OF HOPE established an endowed professorship with a $1.5 million gift from the Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation. The professorship will be used to advance research, education and clinical activities in support of head and neck cancer treatment.
THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS launched the Institute for Clinical Immuno-Oncology, an initiative focused on facilitating the adoption of immuno-oncology in the community cancer setting.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY launched the Commission on Patient Experience, which will be chaired by James Rawson, of Augusta, Ga.
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER launched a new center, The Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research.
KEVIN FITZPATRICK was named CEO of CancerLinQ LLC, a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The Council of the National Academy of Sciences approved the nomination of MARCIA MCNUTT, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals, for election as president of the academy, to succeed Ralph Cicerone when his second term as NAS president ends on July 1, 2016.
