STEPHEN LESSNICK was named director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
JINGHUI ZHANG was named as the first chair of the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She will hold the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM was appointed chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago.
SITEMAN CANCER CENTER at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis was awarded an “exceptional” rating, the highest possible, by the NCI, based on a rigorous peer review of Siteman's research programs. Siteman is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK announced it will join the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance.
Peter Schulam, professor of urology and chief of Yale’s Department of Urology, will serve as the interim director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at Smilow. Lynch joined Yale Cancer Center as director in 2009 and assumed the role of inaugural physician-in-chief at Smilow, which opened that year. During his tenure, more than 130 scientists […]
THE CENTRE FOR DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research announced a call for pre-proposals from Canadian academic investigators focused on early-stage technologies.
TIMOTHY LASH was named leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
KAREN RECKAMP was named medical director for clinical research operations at City of Hope.
THOMAS LYNCH JR., director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, will leave Yale in August to become chairman and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
