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.
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.
