THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH announced 11 fellows of the AACR Academy.
JONATHAN JAROW was named acting director of the Office of Medical Policy in the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
KAREN KNUDSEN was named interim director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and interim chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Thomas Jefferson University.
THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION and Inflection Biosciences announced a collaboration to test IBL-202, a dual-kinase inhibitor, in the treatment of myeloma.
WENDY SELIG plans to step down as president and CEO of the Melanoma Research Alliance, posts she has held for the past five years, in order to establish a new consulting venture.
UT SOUTHWESTERN and a Texas consortium plans to establish the country's first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy, targeted for completion in 2021. NCI awarded UT Southwestern a $1 million planning grant to develop research proposals for the center.
KARL DEISSEROTH was awarded the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for the development of tools to image the functions of cells, especially neurons.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with the Northwestern Medicine Developmental Therapeutics Institute and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, has launched a new research program, Northwestern Onco-SET, to provide a personalized, precision medicine option.
DOUGLAS LOWY received the second annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine from the Harrington Discovery Institute and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
WILLIAM NELSON will serve as the editor-in-chief of Cancer Today, the American Association for Cancer Research's consumer magazine.
