THE CLINICAL RESEARCH FORUM presented its 2014 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards during its annual meeting April 10.
MICHAEL GORDON was named medical director for the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a partnership of Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute. He will oversee the center's phase I program.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH is now accepting applications for the Stand Up To Cancer-Cancer Research U.K. Translational Research Fellowship, which will provide up to four grants for postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, each up to $315,000, over a four-year period.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER formed a research alliance with GlaxoSmithKline to strengthen its efforts in advancing anticancer immunotherapies.
BECKY DEKAY was named president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers at its annual meeting April 2. She is director of oncology services at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Shreveport.
JOHN POWDERLY II was named the recipient of the David King Community Clinical Scientist Award by the Association of Community Cancer Centers. Award winners become lifetime members of the ACCC National Academy of Community Oncology Scientists.
THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK updated its clinical practice guidelines in oncology for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Colorectal.
THIRTEEN GRADUATE STUDENTS received the 2014 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
THE RARE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION and Caring for Carcinoid Foundation announced up to $300,000 in globally available awards to develop cell lines for intestinal carcinoid and pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer.
