IBM acquired Merge Healthcare Inc., a provider of medical image processing and clinical systems, in a $1 billion transaction.
PETER KANETSKY was elected president for the American Society of Preventive Oncology. He will serve as president-elect before taking the post in March 2017.
EDWARD SCHAEFFER will join the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University as chair of the department of Urology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, effective Dec. 1.
ANN NATTINGER was named senior associate dean for research at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
MACIEJ LESNIAK will join the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University Nov. 1.
ALEC KIMMELMAN was named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center, effective Feb. 1, 2016.
ELI LILLY AND CO. announced plans to add 30,000 square feet and approximately 50 new jobs to its research and development presence at the Alexandria Center for Life Science in New York City.
The American College of Gastroenterology announced the 23 winners of the first annual SCOPY Award, the Service Award for Colorectal Cancer Outreach, Prevention and Year-Round Excellence.
MANUEL HIDALGO was named director of the Leon V. & Marilyn L. Rosenberg Clinical Cancer Center and chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He will oversee all clinical cancer programs.
SWOG and its charitable arm, The Hope Foundation, are providing $125,000 to five Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. Under the new VA Integration Support Program, each VA medical center will receive $25,000 in seed funding to help them enroll veterans in trials run by SWOG and other members of the NCI National Clinical Trials... […]
