PATRICIA GOLDSMITH was named CEO of CancerCare.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH is now accepting applications for the Stand Up To Cancer-Cancer Research U.K. Translational Research Fellowship, which will provide up to four grants for postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, each up to $315,000, over a four-year period.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER formed a research alliance with GlaxoSmithKline to strengthen its efforts in advancing anticancer immunotherapies.
BECKY DEKAY was named president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers at its annual meeting April 2. She is director of oncology services at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Shreveport.
JOHN POWDERLY II was named the recipient of the David King Community Clinical Scientist Award by the Association of Community Cancer Centers. Award winners become lifetime members of the ACCC National Academy of Community Oncology Scientists.
THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK updated its clinical practice guidelines in oncology for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Colorectal.
THIRTEEN GRADUATE STUDENTS received the 2014 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
THE RARE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION and Caring for Carcinoid Foundation announced up to $300,000 in globally available awards to develop cell lines for intestinal carcinoid and pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer.
THE COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY ALLIANCE released the results of its IV Fluid Shortage Survey. Sixty-six practices from across the country were surveyed. The results showed that:
MARION COUCH was named the Richard T. Miyamoto Professor and chair of the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Couch will assume her duties June 1, pending approval by the trustees of Indiana University.
