Yolanda Sanchez was named director and CEO of The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) introduced The Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act, a legislation that will address gaps in survivorship care and develop standards to improve the overall patient-centered quality of care and navigation needs of cancer survivors and their families.
The Max Foundation, a global nonprofit organization that aims to accelerate health equity by delivering medication, technology, and supportive services to patients globally, will launch access to the Novartis therapy Scemblix (asciminib) in 36 low- and middle-income countries in 2023 for people living with chronic myeloid leukemia as part of the CancerPath to Care collaboration with Novartis.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation announced the four inaugural Class of 2022 TACTICAL (Therapy ACceleration To Intercept CAncer Lethality) Award recipients.Â
Barbara Burtness, professor of medicine (medical oncology), has been named chief translational research officer for Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, and associate cancer center director for translational research for Yale Cancer Center.Â
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is building a dedicated Myeloma Research Institute. C. Ola Landgren, who joined Sylvester two years ago, will be the director.
Alessandro Fatatis was named associate director for basic research at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.
Robert W. Sobol was named associate director for basic research and co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University. In this role, he leads efforts toward continued growth of the basic science program and will serve as the co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program. He is also a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine.
Sendurai A. Mani has been named associate director for translational oncology at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine.
Medicine in the Media, a free, in-person, four-day workshop held in Washington, DC to help journalists hone their skills in reporting on medical research, is open to applications.
