AMY ABERNETHY was named chief medical officer and senior vice president of oncology at Flatiron Health.
J. ALAN DIEHL joined the Medical University of South Carolina as associate director for basic sciences at Hollings Cancer Center. He will also serve as professor in the MUSC Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
WILLIAM HOGAN joined the University of Florida College of Medicine's department of health outcomes and policy and will serve as director of biomedical informatics at UF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL announced the appointment of three physician-scientists to leadership positions.
LI MA and JEFFREY TYNER were named the recipients of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award.
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE received an “outstanding” distinction from NCI, which renewed its Cancer Center Support Grant and extended its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation, following an in-depth peer review. Roswell Park will receive $19 million with the core grant covering a five-year period.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY has named 30 society members to receive the Fellow of ASTRO designation. The 2014 class will receive the recognition during an awards ceremony Sept. 16 at the society's annual meeting in San Francisco.
THE COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY ALLIANCE appointed new officers. Bruce Gould, of Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers in Marietta, Ga., was named president of COA.
JOHN CLEVELAND was named associate center director of basic science at Moffitt Cancer Center.
CORNELIA ULRICH and BRUCE EDGAR will join the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah as early as Sept. 1.
