Eyal Gottlieb was named vice president for research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $10 million gift from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and Andrew “Andy” Sabin, a senior member of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors.
Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center has formed the Geriatric Oncology Center of Excellence to address the needs of a growing patient population through innovative research and care delivery methods via a multidisciplinary approach.
The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a five-year $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Data Science Strategy at NIH to investigate whether problem-based learning will more effectively help to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce and reduce health disparities.
In celebration of November’s Native American Heritage Month and Stomach Cancer Awareness Month observances, the John Wayne Cancer Foundation is funding research that will allow doctors to assess barriers to treatment of H. pylori and disseminate findings to community health partners to reduce the occurrence of stomach cancer.
Shellie Ellis, associate professor of population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was awarded a $1.2 million R01 grant from NCI to test an intervention she and her colleagues designed known as TEAMSPORT (Multi-TEAM Systems Framework Precision Oncology Reflex Testing).
The Cancer Support Community and the National Rural Oncology Collaborative partnered to make medical oncology treatments and cancer support services available at Breckinridge Health, a critical-access hospital located in the rural community of Hardinsburg, Kentucky.
Gregory Reaman was named scientific director of the NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. The initiative represents a national commitment to harnessing and sharing data in ways to make faster progress in childhood cancers.
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Pfizer’s Institute of Translational Equitable Medicine formed a collaboration to launch a cancer genomics study to characterize novel genetic, molecular, and social determinants of cancer across populations of African ancestry.
UPMC has partnered with Dragan Primorac, a physician and founder and chairman of St. Catherine Specialty Hospital, to expand cancer services in Croatia.
