The President’s Cancer Panel released a report, Enhancing Patient Navigation with Technology to Improve Equity in Cancer Care, as part of a White House event acknowledging advancements in navigation support for cancer patients over the past year. The report calls on healthcare organizations, policymakers, and technology developers to keep pace with the rapid advancement and adoption of new technology.
Break Through Cancer has launched the PoweRD 2 Cure ALK+ Lung Cancer TeamLab, a collaboration among nine leading cancer research institutions, including Break Through Cancer’s five partner institutions: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as newly engaged collaborators from Mass General Brigham, Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Siemens Healthineers and The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center have expanded their existing strategic relationship to form a 10-year, $105 million value partnership to foster breakthroughs in clinical care, in addition to their longstanding research collaboration.
To meet the growing demands for cancer treatment in Tarrant County and surrounding areas, UT Southwestern Medical Center is expanding its cancer services in the Fort Worth Medical District with construction of a two-story radiation oncology campus that will house the city’s first MRI-guided precision radiation treatment.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University received a $2.3 million Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to develop a novel NanoGel antibody therapy that targets ER+ breast cancer that has metastasized to bone.
A team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers has been awarded up to $10 million in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health funding to develop the Cancer Identification and Precision Oncology Center (CIPOC).
UVA Cancer Center, Appalachian Community Cancer Alliance, and Buchanan General Hospital have teamed up to make getting screened for lung cancer easier for residents of rural Virginia and West Virginia.
Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and Cure4Cancer jointly published “Advancing Global Health Equity: Expanding the U.S.-Australia Cancer Alliance Toward an Asia-Pacific Collaborative Effort to Save Millions of Lives.”
Krish Patel was appointed director of lymphoma research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Robert Schnoll, Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center’s associate director for population science, was named the John H. Glick, MD Professor in Cancer Research. Schnoll is also the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, a senior fellow in the Penn Center for Public Health, and co-director of the Community Research and Engagement Core at the Penn Center for AIDS Research.
