THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, San Francisco, with support from a team of collaborators, launched the Cancer Cell Map Initiative to determine how all of the components of a cancer cell interact.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and AstraZeneca announced a multiyear strategic research collaboration to conduct multiple, parallel clinical and clinically related studies in ovarian and other gynecologic cancers, including epidemiological and outcomes studies.
TONY HUNTER, CHARLES SAWYERS, and JOSEPH SCHLESSINGER received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine from the BBVA Foundation for their work in on personalized treatments of cancer.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has eliminated its mesothelioma center after its director, Robert Taub, was reported to have had a long-running association with the former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
JAMES ORR was appointed chair of the Florida Board of Medicine. Orr is medical director of Florida Gynecologic Oncology, a division of 21st Century Oncology. He will direct the actions of the board that oversees 68,000 Florida physicians.
SCOTT STRONG was named as chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and surgical director of the Digestive Health Center.
PICADOR acquired world rights to a debut novel by Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter. Set in Moscow in late February and early March of 1953, the novel is only in part about medicine. It's expected to be published in early 2016.
ROYAL PHILIPS will analyze pathology samples using advanced image analysis algorithms from Indica Labs Inc. as part of its Digital Pathology Solutions offerings.
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Hollings Cancer Center's Mount Pleasant location installed TrueBeam imaging capabilities for patients, as well as several types of external beam radiation therapy.
JOHNATHAN LANCASTER joined Myriad Genetics as vice president of medical affairs for oncology in Myriad Genetic Laboratories, effective Feb. 9.
