Researchers at NYU Dentistry’s Pain Research Center have been awarded a five-year, $8 million NIH grant to study signaling mechanisms that generate oral cancer pain. The funding is part of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, which supports the development of safe and effective therapeutics to treat pain in an effort to end the opioid crisis.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will receive $1 million from the Judd Hill Foundation’s Fund for Excellence in support of the UAMS Northeast Regional Campus and cancer patients in the region.
Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chairman and CEO, will receive the 2024 the American Association for Cancer Research Outstanding Achievement Award for Service to Cancer Science and Medicine during the AACR Annual Meeting 2024, to be held April 5-10 in San Diego, California.
The American Association for Cancer Research has named its newest class of grant recipients.
NCI renewed the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center’s “comprehensive” designation and continued grant support for another five years.
Christopher Hourigan, a senior investigator and chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies at the National Institutes of Health, will join Virginia Tech as a professor with the institute and director of its Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Center in Washington, D.C.
Antonio C. Wolff, chair of the Breast Cancer Committee for the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, will co-lead the Breast Cancer Steering Committee for NCI. He began the three-year term on April 1.
Anna Berkenblit, a clinical oncologist and drug developer, was named the first-ever chief scientific and medical officer of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Jonathan Chernoff and William G. KaelinWilliam G. Kaelin Jr., physician, scientist, and Nobel laureate, was recognized at Fox Chase Cancer Center with the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the center’s highest distinction.
Ellen V. Sigal, Marlene A. Malek, Scott LaGanga, and Tim Lawrence will be honored at the 36th Annual Lombardi Gala, an annual event dedicated to raising funds for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
