Camille Ragin, associate director of DEI at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was appointed chair of the Minorities in Cancer Research Council for the American Association for Cancer Research at the AACR annual meeting.
The African-Caribbean Cancer Consortium, a multi-institutional collaborative network that focuses on studies of cancer risk and outcomes among populations of African ancestry, received the American Association for Cancer Research Team Science Award at the AACR annual meeting. Camille Ragin, associate director of DEI at Fox Chase Cancer Center, heads the network.
Edna “Eti” Cukierman, co-director of the Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was appointed chair-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research’s Tumor Microenvironment Working Group at the AACR annual meeting.
The American Cancer Society has received a gift of up to $11 million from Methodist Healthcare Ministries to open the American Cancer Society Methodist Healthcare Ministries Hope Lodge in San Antonio.
VCU Massey Cancer Center and Dominion Energy are deploying two mobile health units that will provide critical cancer education and outreach to the public within traditionally underserved communities in central and southern Virginia.
Maryam Ijaz Khan was named associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, will open April 17 at 1010 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC.
The SWOG Cancer Research Network’s board of governors has amended the group’s constitution to allow for a pair of individuals to share the group’s top leadership position as equal co-chairs.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center received its first Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grant from NCI. The five-year, $9.8 million federal grant is intended to translate cancer research into clinical intervention.
James P. Allison received the 25th Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer. A 2018 Nobel Prize co-recipient in physiology/medicine, Allison serves as the chair of immunology and executive director of the Immunotherapy Platform at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
