ARTHUR CAPLAN received the 2014 Public Service Award from the National Science Board. Caplan is the founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY signed a licensing agreement with MedVax Technologies Inc., for the licensing of cancer peptide vaccine technologies.
F. MARC STEWART was named incoming president of the board of directors of both the Patient Advocate Foundation and National Patient Advocate Foundation. Stewart has been a member of the foundation’s scientific board since 2003. Since 2000, he has been a professor of medical oncology at the University of Washington Medical School, medical director for... […]
KENNETH PIENTA was named director of the Prostate Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is joined by two co-directors, Samuel Denmeade and Shawn Lupold.
VICTOR FAZIO and HAGOP KANTARJIAN will each receive lifetime achievement awards from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. during their National Physician of the Year Awards, scheduled March 31 in New York City.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER signed a three-year translational and clinical research agreement with MedImmune to develop anti-cancer immunotherapies through the center's Moon Shots Program. MedImmune is the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca.
SARAH THAYER was named the Merle M. Musselman Centennial Professor of Surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She was also named associate director for clinical affairs and physician-in-chief for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at UNMC.
VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. has entered into a multi-year agreement with Bayer Pharma AG to develop companion diagnostics with a focus on immunohistochemistry, across Bayer's portfolio of targeted therapy projects.
NCI announced the winners of the 2013 Cancer Center Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards.
DEBASHISH TRIPATHY joined MD Anderson Cancer Center as breast medical oncology chair.
