The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has established ARPANET-H, a nationwide health innovation network anchored by three ARPA-H regional hubs.
Cancer Research UK and France’s Institut National du Cancer have partnered to fund researchers through the global Cancer Grand Challenges initiative.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Siteman Cancer Center received a $11.6 million grant through the NCI’s Specialized Programs of Research Excellence.
The New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance has rebranded as the New Mexico Cancer Research Alliance to strengthen its focus on delivering cancer clinical trials to New Mexicans.
Lekhaj Daggubati has joined the George Washington University Cancer Center and the GW Medical Faculty Associates as director of surgical neuro-oncology.
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.
