FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products published the actions it plans to take in response to an external evaluation commissioned last year from an independent panel of evaluators working through the Reagan-Udall Foundation.
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research granted ASPIRE awards of twelve research projects from academic institutions in Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, and USA, totaling more than $4 million.
The governing board of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved over $90 million in cancer research and prevention grants at its quarterly meeting on Feb. 15. The slate of forty projects from across Texas fund a wide range of research and prevention efforts at major research hubs like Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, but also invests in rapidly developing cancer research programs in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley.
Michael Henry, deputy director of University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor in the UI Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, was named interim director of the cancer center.
Jaime Merchán was named co-leader of the Translational and Clinical Oncology Research Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth—University of Miami Health System.
The Florida Department of Health granted more than $1.4 million from the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program to Taghrid Asfar, a researcher at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, to help construction workers quit smoking.
Priyamvada Rai was named co-leader of the Tumor Biology Research Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth—University of Miami Health System.
Tom Sellers was named lead research officer at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
Shivaani KummarLisa CoussensShivaani Kummar and Lisa Coussens were named deputy directors of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
Edith P. Mitchell, director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities and clinical professor of medicine and medical oncology, was named enterprise vice president for cancer disparities at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.
