UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has established a Center for Experimental Therapeutics in Cancer to accelerate promising cancer therapies from the lab to the bedside.
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson was named associate director of community outreach and engagement at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Joseph L. Kissil was named chair of the Molecular Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Moffitt Cancer Center was granted $3.7 million from NCI’s Connecting Underrepresented Populations to Clinical Trials U01 Grants Program. The five-year, $3.7 million grant will help the cancer center develop new digital tools and community outreach strategies to reach Black and Hispanic cancer patients and physicians in the Tampa Bay community.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and the Cleveland Clinic was awarded more than $7.9 million by the NCI to support a new Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network center.
The American Cancer Society has approved funding for 89 new Extramural Discovery Science research grants totaling $54.3 million. The grants will fund investigators at 65 institutions across the U.S. starting Jan. 1, 2023.
Elizabeth Jaffee, Electra Paskett, and Pelatonia received the 2022 American Association of Cancer Institutes awards.
William A. Calo was named co-leader of the Cancer Control Program of the Penn State Cancer Institute.
The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children’s Hospital was awarded more than $10.3 million by NCI to continue translational lymphoma research.
Dina M. Jones, assistant professor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Center for the Study of Tobacco, received a $733,000 K01 grant to conduct a study that seeks to understand disparities in smoking cessation among African American menthol cigarette smokers.
