MICHAEL SAPIENZA received the 2014 David Jagelman, MD, Award for Advocacy in Colorectal Cancer from the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
ELLEN MILLER SONET was named chief strategy and alliance officer of CancerCare.
JOHN BIRKMEYER was named executive vice president for enterprise support services for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.
KEVIN FITZGERALD, a Jesuit priest, Georgetown bioethicist and cancer researcher, has been appointed by Pope Francis to serve as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.
V. CRAIG JORDAN will join MD Anderson Cancer Center as a professor in Breast Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology. He will begin work in October.
REP. HENRY WAXMAN received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The 340B Coalition.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY and the University of Michigan have signed an agreement with Ohio-based Venture Therapeutics Inc. to form a new company to develop and commercialize a pharmaceutical technology targeted for the treatment of precancerous oral lesions.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HEALTH NETWORK executed a principles-of-agreement document with Banner Health to create a statewide health care organization and a comprehensive new model for academic medicine. This agreement is intended to lead to final agreements in September.
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY and Immunocore Limited entered into a co-discovery and co-development collaboration to research and develop novel T cell-based cancer therapies.
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from NCI to study new therapeutic approaches for pancreatic cancer.
