THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center received a pledge of $15 million to support breast cancer research from The Vera Bradley Foundation.
JOHN PORTER, former member of Congress, partner in the law firm Hogan Lovells, and chair of Research!America, was named the recipient of the 2014 Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The medal will be presented April 27 during the academy's 151st annual meeting.
THE HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH announced the creation of the James D. Watson Award, with Nobel laureate James Watson being the first recipient.
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE will offer over $580 million in the 2014 fiscal year through its office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.
JUSTIN KLAMERUS was named chief quality officer and executive vice president for community-based programs at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, CHI St. Luke's Health and the Texas Heart Institute have expanded their educational, clinical and research affiliations in conjunction with Catholic Health Initiatives, which sponsors and operates the newly named CHI St. Luke's Health.
REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. and Geisinger Health System announced a research collaboration focused on studying the genetic determinants of human disease.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and Pfizer will collaborate in the development of immune-based approaches to cancer treatment, the first such agreement made through MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program immunotherapy platform.
DMITRI ALDEN was named an Honorary Foreign Member of the French National Academy of Surgery. He will be officially recognized at the academy's 2014 Solemn Ceremony Jan. 22 in Paris.
BARBARA ANN BURTNESS was named clinical research program leader of the Head and Neck Cancers Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and co-director of the Developmental Therapeutics Research Program for Yale Cancer Center. She will become a professor of medicine in medical oncology and will begin her appointment April 1.
