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.
President Biden intends to appoint six members to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Jordan Berlin, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, was named director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of Hematology and Oncology. Previously, Berlin was interim director for six months.
Michael Taylor was named director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Research Program at Texas Children’s Hospital and at Baylor College of Medicine.
Kimberly A. Curseen was named director of the Palliative Medicine Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Priyamvada Rai was named Tumor Biology Research Program co-leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth—University of Miami Health System.
Vani Simmons, co-director of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Tobacco Research and Intervention Program, received the 2023 American Society of Preventive Oncology’s Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award. The award will be presented during the ASPO 47th Annual Meeting, March 12-14, in San Diego.
