Anthony Stack has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as an assistant professor in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapies.
Hilario Yankey joins Fox Chase Cancer Center as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology.
Roger Lo, professor of medicine, dermatology, and molecular and medical pharmacology and investigator at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a $2 million grant from NIH to investigate innovative strategies to prevent drug resistance in melanoma treatment and improve the effectiveness of MAPK inhibitors, a common treatment for patients with melanomas that carry the BRAFV600 mutation.
Tampa General Hospital and Mass General Brigham announced a strengthening of their affiliation with the development of new programs and services, including a bone marrow transplant program and CAR T therapy program, at TGH.
Robert R. Jenq was named director of the microbiome program at City of Hope and clinical professor in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital has appointed a trio of physicians and researchers to oversee the center’s first Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion: Eloise Chapman-Davis, Minerva A. Romero Arenas, and Monica L. Guzman.
Kathryn H. Schmitz, an exercise oncology researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, has been selected by the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition to receive a 2024 Lifetime Impact Award.
Arielle S. Weiss will join Fox Chase Cancer Center as assistant professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Surgery.
To address the need for nonaddictive methods to treat pain, a University of Florida team has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from NIH to train postdoctoral fellows seeking to become independent clinical pain researchers.
Cigall Kadoch was named the laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in the field of life sciences for her work in cancer biology.
