The spending bills now being put together by Republican-led House will include “brutal budget cuts” that would harm social programs as well as research, Senate Democrats said in a recently released list of programs likely to be cut in the House appropriations bills.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has been granted a two-year merit extension of its Cancer Center Support Grant from NCI. The grant is MSK’s oldest and largest, and the one which provides its designation as one of 53 Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationwide.
City of Hope was also awarded more than $23 million in competitive funding through renewal of its NCI’s Cancer Center Support Grant to support its research, cancer training, and education programs and community outreach over the next five years.
Damon VidrineGina DeNicolaMatthew SchabathDamon Vidrine, Gina DeNicola, and Matthew Schabath were named research leaders at Moffitt.
Julie R. Park was named chair of the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The American Association for Cancer Research will award Carl H. June, fellow of the AACR Academy, with the 2023 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research during the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, April 14-19 in Orlando.
Vanessa B. Sheppard, associate director for community outreach and engagement and health disparities research at VCU Massey Cancer Center, received the American Cancer Society’s 2022 Researcher of the Year Award for her advances in cancer research.
After 10 months of planning and community engagement, the University of Chicago Medicine has updated its original proposal to build the city’s first freestanding cancer hospital with an enhanced design that incorporates feedback from patients and residents of the South Side.
Moffitt Cancer Center and IBA (Ion Beam Applications), are partnering to bring proton therapy treatment to Speros FL, Moffitt’s 775-acre Global Innovation Center located in Pasco County.
DKMS, the world’s largest blood stem cell donor center, received a $300,000 grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to further its mission of providing patients battling blood cancer and blood diseases with lifesaving blood stem cell donors.
