UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center established the state’s first-ever Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center. The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, a state research agency administered by the UC Office of the President, is providing $3.7 million in funding to operate the center for four years.
Mina Sedrak, associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Cancer and Aging Program at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a five-year, $3.4 million grant from NIH to examine how exercise and certain drugs may be able to slow chemotherapy-related accelerated aging seen in breast cancer survivors.
Research grants provided by the Community Foundation of Broward have helped Memorial Cancer Institute, in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, establish a patient registry and biorepository (tumor bank) for minority cancer patients.
Oncologist Kaitlyn O’Keefe has joined Oncology Specialists of Charlotte.
Theodore S. LawrenceMeredith MorganAn inter-departmental group of researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center received an NCI SPORE grant focused on radiosensitization.
Michel SadelainCarl JuneMichel Sadelain, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Carl June, of University of Pennsylvania, are two of the recipients of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapy.
Jack Cuzick will receive the William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Dec. 5-9 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.
VCU Massey Cancer Center has changed its name to VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center in recognition of its recent comprehensive status from NCI (The Cancer Letter, May 31, 2023).
AccessHope and Johns Hopkins Medicine have partnered to increase access to oncology expertise and research to optimize cancer treatment plans across the U.S. through expert case reviews.
MD Anderson Cancer Center has broken ground on a 600,000-square-foot facility intended to anchor the institution’s south campus research park.
