Oksana Leontyeva, an expert in hematologic malignancies, was killed in a Russian rocket attack as she was rushing through central Kyiv to take care of her patients at OKHMATDYT, the biggest children’s hospital in Ukraine.
Sudhir Srivastava won the Don Listwin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection.
MD Anderson Cancer Center President Peter W.T. Pisters challenged Selwyn M. Vickers, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, to a friendly Twitter bet.
Don S. Dizon has been named the inaugural vice chair for diversity, equity, inclusion, and professional integrity with the SWOG Cancer Research Network.
Nicole Gormley has been named the acting associate director for Oncology Endpoint Development in the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence. She will also continue her role as the division director for the Division of Hematologic Malignancies 2.
Northwell Health received a gift from trustee Roy J. Zuckerberg to create the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center—the first cancer hospital and cancer campus on Long Island.
Yuan Yuan, a breast medical oncologist and physician scientist who specializes in triple-negative breast cancer and breast cancer immunotherapy, was named director of Breast Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
Terry Hyslop was named co-leader of the Cancer Risk and Control Program at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center named.
Zelig Eshhar, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, was named the 2022 recipient of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer’s Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship.
Candace S. Johnson, president and CEO of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, was named an Advocacy in Action Award winner by Western New York’s Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME, Inc.).
