Six Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium scientists received $1.7M in grants from Breast Cancer Research Foundation to launch or continue studies aimed at improving outcomes in breast cancer.
NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli delivered the Charles G. Moertel Lecture at the Fall Group Meeting of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. The meeting took place Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
The American Society of Hematology will recognize Judith Kleinerman as the recipient of the 2024 ASH Exemplary Service Award.
Jennifer Bickel has been named the inaugural vice president and chief wellness officer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She will begin on Jan. 6, 2025.
Lorenzo Galluzzi was named associate professor with tenure in the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center received a $50 million gift from Richard and Susan Rogel for pancreatic cancer research and care.
A multidisciplinary team of experts in lung cancer screening and implementation science from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, to spearhead a new initiative aimed at reducing disparities in lung cancer screening across Los Angeles County.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center hosted its ninth annual Boot Walk to End Cancer fundraising event on Nov. 2, in the Texas Medical Center. This year, the Boot Walk’s 7,000+ in-person participants and 1,200+ virtual participants from Houston and around the world joined together to raise $1.4 million to support the institution’s mission to end cancer.
UChicago Medicine received a $75 million donation from the AbbVie Foundation, a nonprofit focused on advancing health equity, to help fund the construction of the new cancer care and research pavilion.
The Longevity Consortium received a five-year, $45 million grant to move the consortium’s work to its next stage: integrating results from numerous studies about the factors that contribute to longer and healthier lives.
