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.Â
Terry Hyslop was named co-leader of the Cancer Risk and Control Program at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center named.Â
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.Â
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.).
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center formed a collaboration with the Chinatown Service Center to improve access to life-saving cervical cancer screenings, referrals, and treatment for Chinese and Latina women in Central Los Angeles.
MD Anderson Cancer Center and World Health Organization formed an agreement to establish a new international collaboration concentrated on reducing the global burden of women’s cancers. The agreement builds on years of collaboration between the two institutions to further promote their shared efforts in advancing global cancer initiatives in women’s cancers, including breast and cervical cancers.
The Association of Community Cancer Centers named the winning programs for its 12th annual ACCC Innovator Awards, highlighting the year’s solutions to improving cancer care delivery and the patient experience. The five ACCC Innovator Award winners feature programs in areas such as remote patient monitoring, improving oral oncolytic compliance, and addressing social determinants of health.Â
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network received the 2022 Excellence in Cancer Patient Education award from the Cancer Patient Education Network.Â
Anna D. Barker, chief strategy officer at the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine is the recipient of the AIM-HI Accelerator Fund’s inaugural Beacon Award for Women Leaders in Oncology.
The Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation of Bayport, MN, has made a $100 million multi-year commitment to support the expansion of Mayo Clinic’s proton beam facility in Rochester to nearly double appointment access for patients.
