CHAD ELLIS was named associate director of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, effective April 1.
ALAN ASHWORTH was appointed director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, effective January 2015.
EDITH PEREZ was named the 2014 recipient of the Claude Jacquillat Award. She received the award during the 25th International Congress on Anticancer Treatment. Winners of this award are recognized for outstanding contributions to cancer patient care.
BORIS PASCHE has become director of the recently expanded comprehensive cancer center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
CURIE-CANCER, the body responsible for developing Institut Curie's industry partnership activities, and is renewing its partnership with DNA Therapeutics.
CAROL BIER-LANING will lead a new comprehensive head and neck cancer program launched by Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center.
JIALI HAN was named the Rachel Cecile Efroymson Professor in Cancer Research at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, pending approval by the IU board of trustees. He is also professor and inaugural chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Fairbanks School of Public Health.
CLARIENT added the THxID-BRAF molecular diagnostic test, developed by BioMerieux Inc., to its service offerings.
THE VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE announced the establishment of a global epigenetics research hub.
NEOGENOMICS INC. launched a series of NeoTYPE cancer profiling tests covering 22 different categories of cancer.