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.
JAMES DOWNING was named CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, effective July 15. Downing most recently has served as deputy director, executive vice president and scientific director of the hospital.
THOMAS HANSEN, chief executive officer of Seattle Children's, will retire in 2015 as part of a long-planned leadership transition.
LYNDA CHIN was named a recipient of the Chancellor's Health Fellowship by MD Anderson Cancer Center.
BAYER PHARMA AG and arGEN-X announced a collaboration to develop therapeutic antibodies.
