MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and UnitedHealthcare launched a pilot program for a cancer care payment model for head and neck cancers using bundled payments.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute opened in a new hospital building, following a four-phase transition that involved 700 staff and volunteers, spanning three days.
DAVID CURROW was named director of palliative medicine and hospice care at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.
BORIS KUVSHINOFF II was named chief medical quality officer and interim chief medical officer at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
MARCELO BENTO SOARES was named senior associate dean for research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
WELDON GAGE was named vice president and chief financial officer of MD Anderson Cancer Center, effective Jan. 12, 2015.
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and Research Foundation launched a $100 million, multi-year fundraising initiative to support patient access to clinical trials as well as immunotherapy research.
THE CROWDCARE FOUNDATION announced the first crowdfunding initiative for myeloma research at the 2014 conference of the American Society of Hematology.
PHARMACYCLICS Inc. was awarded the 2014 Society for Medicines Research Award for Drug Discovery for its discovery of Imbruvica (ibrutinib). The award was presented by the Society of Medicines Research at its biennial award lecture in London.
YALE UNIVERSITY and Organovo Holdings Inc. formed a collaboration to develop 3D bioprinted organ tissues for surgical transplantation research, made possible by a gift from the Methuselah Foundation.
