Led by Lyor Cohen, global head of music at YouTube and Google, City of Hope raised more than $4.3 million at its Music, Film and Entertainment Industry fundraising group’s Spirit of Life gala.
Fox Chase Cancer Center has invested in Nucleus RadioPharma, a company specializing in the development and distribution of radiopharmaceuticals, targeted therapies that deliver radiation directly to cancer cells.
UCI Health has acquired GenesisCare radiation oncology centers in Orange County.
Joann B. Sweasy, an expert in the genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry of DNA repair, has been named the next director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced the recipients of its 2023 Endeavor Award program, providing a total of $12 million across seven institutions to support teams of scientists tackling a range of urgent challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center earned a Merit Extension Award from NCI, which provides two additional years of funding from the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant, adding $15 million to the $36 million grant that the NCI awarded to VICC in 2020.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence, or SPORE, grant from NCI to support research and clinical trials aimed at improving therapies for pancreatic cancer.
Xiang “Shawn” Zhang was named director of the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine after serving as interim director since March 2022.
Juliana Hofstatter AzambujaCarlos Mendez-DorantesMaritza Puray-ChavezTigist TamirChristine VazquezJohanna Melo-CardenasGina Gallego LopezKari PriceFred Hutchinson Cancer Center has announced the recipients of the 2023 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award, which recognizes early-career underrepresented minority scientists and scientists with disabilities.
Igor Astsaturov, associate professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology and co-director of The Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, was appointed as the inaugural holder of Paul F. Engstrom Professorship in Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
