Karen Mustian, tenured dean’s professor in the Division of Cancer Control, Department of Surgery, and a longtime leader at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, has been promoted to associate director of population science at Wilmot.
Paulo Rodriguez was named chair of the Department of Immunology and co-leader of the Immuno-Oncology Program at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Moffitt Cancer Center has opened Moffitt McKinley Hospital, an inpatient surgical hospital located on 20 acres across from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Outpatient Center.
Martin Edelman, chair of the Department of Hematology/Oncology and deputy cancer center director for clinical research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been appointed inaugural chair of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Sukhmani K. Padda was named professor and vice chair of medical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University Hospital.
Lali Medina-Kauwe was named the inaugural Carol Moss Foundation Chair in Medical Discovery at Cedars-Sinai. The support of the Carol Moss Foundation, whose endowment was established by the foundation’s late president, Samuel W. Halper, will enable Medina-Kauwe to advance innovative research in nanomedicine.
Niki Patel, a fellowship-trained hematologist-oncologist board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, was named to the Division of Medical Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
MD Anderson to advance cancer prevention, treatment, research and education in Mozambique and Brazil
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center plans to expand its global oncology efforts in Mozambique and Brazil, including a new four-year agreement to broaden existing cancer prevention and treatment efforts with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique and a $5.1 million grant from NIH focused on cervical cancer prevention and treatment among women living with the human immunodeficiency virus.
A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by The Wistar Institute has been awarded a more than $12 million NCI P01, a five-year grant that includes a cross section of researchers from disciplines and institutions throughout the country.
Saar Gill, of the University of Pennsylvania, has received $300,000 from the DeGregorio Family Foundation, with support from the Torrey Coast Foundation Gastro Esophageal Investigator Network Initiative (GEMINI), for progress he’s made on a grant for gastroesophageal cancer research.
