The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has attained the NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation.
The American Association for Cancer Research has established the AACR Cancer Centers Alliance to foster collaboration and innovation among cancer centers to advance scientific discoveries.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have formed a comprehensive collaboration designed to advance cancer care and build the region’s only independent, free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer patients.
City of Hope received a $100 million gift from Andrew and Peggy Cherng, philanthropists, co-founders and co-CEOs of Panda Express, to create a first-of-its-kind, national integrative oncology program that brings together Eastern and Western medicine to improve outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients and survivors.
The AACI CTO Staff Retention Task Force published a report that highlights key data from two surveys distributed to cancer center directors in March 2022 and again in March 2023.
The University of Kansas Medical Center is establishing a Midwest consortium as part of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. KU Medical Center and its partners will receive $6.3 million in initial funding, with the potential to renew the award every year for four years.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will be the national coordinating center for a new epidemiological cohort study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a three-year, $24.8 million cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to lead the CUREIT program: “Curing the Uncurable via RNA-Encoded Immunogene Tuning.”
Suresh Ramalingam, executive director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, was awarded the Paul A. Bunn, Jr. Scientific Award Sept. 9 at the 2023 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer.
Hematologist-oncologist Ajay K. Nooka was named associate director for clinical research at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
