Sulma Mohammed was named co-leader of the University of Florida’s Health Cancer Center’s Cancer Control and Population Sciences research program. She will also serve as co-director of the NCI-funded Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement CaRE2 Health Equity Center.
José Larios, a transplant hematologist, joined The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute as a member of the bone marrow and stem cell transplant and hematology oncology multidisciplinary teams at Karmanos. He specializes in treating leukemia and lymphoma blood cancers, including Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. He began seeing patients at the Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit in August 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a final rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports. This rule will reduce the burden of medical debt and ensure that patients are not denied access to credit for home mortgages, car loans, or small business loans due to unpaid medical bills.
Becky Kamowitz was named executive director of the Skin Cancer Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that is committed to decreasing the incidence and mortality skin cancer through public education. Kamowitz has worked for the foundation for more than a decade and previously served as interim executive director and senior director of marketing communications.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will launch the Center for RAS Therapeutics, a multidisciplinary initiative to advance scientific investigation, translational research, and clinical care approaches for patients with RAS-driven cancers.
A collaborative effort to eliminate cancer health disparities among African Americans and other underserved populations in the Washington, DC, area is being reignited at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Howard University Cancer Center.
The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine are forming Ka ʻUmeke Lama, an initiative to transform cancer care in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
In December, Congress failed to advance a bipartisan year-end health care package that would have made a big difference in the fight against cancer, according to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
Virginia Commonwealth University has been awarded a five-year, $9 million grant from NCI to establish a pioneering Cancer Control Equity Research Center. This initiative aims to enhance the dissemination and implementation of health promotion and cancer prevention services for individuals and families residing in Virginia’s Housing and Urban Development-administered income-based housing communities in the Greater Richmond region and Hampton Roads.
Stephen BaylinAndrew FeinbergJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers Stephen Baylin and Andrew Feinberg were awarded the 2022–2023 Harvey Prize in the field of Science and Technology by the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
