Raphael E. Pollock and George J. Weiner exchanged roles recently.
His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (sixth from right) and Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Tom Mihaljevic (seventh from right), with dignitaries, clinical staff at the opening of the Fatima bint Mubarak Center at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.Source: Cleveland ClinicCleveland Clinic has opened a cancer facility named the Fatima bint Mubarak Center, at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Rangaswamy Govindarajan, a hematologist and oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was appointed chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Hospital Alejandro Otero Lopez-Manati Medical Center of Manati, Puerto Rico, received the 2023 the DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr. Award.
Stefan C. Grant was named deputy director of the Louisiana Cancer Research Center.
Duane Mitchell was named recipient of the inaugural Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of his work to develop innovative immunotherapy treatments for brain cancer.
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.
