UCLA’s urology department was awarded $6 million from the California Department of Health Care Services to continue providing care and critical services to underinsured and uninsured Californians diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Luca Valle, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop new methods to better understand the clinical scope and biological factors that lead to prostate cancer coming back after radiation therapy.
IgniteData announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to deploy its Archer platform across multiple sites in the U.S., aiming to improve the management of clinical trial data by enhancing the transfer of information from Electronic Health Records to Electronic Data Capture systems.
CEO Roundtable on Cancer and Paradigm Health Inc. announced a strategic partnership to launch the Partnership for Access, Collaboration, and Trust Collective. This pioneering initiative aims to break down barriers and create equitable access to oncology clinical trials, particularly for African American, Hispanic, and other underrepresented patient groups.
OmniaBio Inc. announced the opening of a new North American cell and gene therapy manufacturing and artificial intelligence center of excellence, which is now Canada’s largest contract development and manufacturing organization facility dedicated to CGT.
Together for Supportive Cancer Care, a national coalition that will work to expand early, equitable access to whole-person, supportive care for all people with cancer, regardless of where they receive care, has launched.
FDA in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announced the administrative seizure of approximately three million units of unauthorized e-cigarette products, with an estimated retail value of $76 million.
Flatiron Health announced a milestone of over 1,000 research publications utilizing Flatiron’s electronic health record-derived real world data.
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Centers held the first annual Changing the Face of Cancer Center Leadership Program in June.
Stand Up To Cancer announced grants to several teams of leading cancer investigators in support of cutting-edge research in a variety of cancers including head and neck, pediatric, pancreatic, breast, rectal, and gastro-esophageal cancers, as well as research focused on how the microbiome communicates with the immune system.
