The Jack Martin Fund has built on its partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System to provide care and support to children with cancer through a $3.5 million gift to The Mount Sinai Hospital to establish the Jack Martin Fund Child and Adolescent Imaging Center at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.
Neil Palmisiano was named the new deputy director of phase I therapeutics for hematologic malignancies and co-medical director of the Office of Human Research Services at Rutgers Cancer Institute; and new system leader for Leukemia for RWJBarnabas Health.
Joseph R. Triggs has been named assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology of the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
David Weintritt has joined the community-based cancer treatment team at Virginia Cancer Specialists, a U.S. Oncology Network practice.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer has launched a Clinical and Regulatory Sciences Graduate Certificate Program, which begins in the fall of 2022.
Siteman Cancer Center and University of Missouri Health Care’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Center have formed a collaboration to improve cancer care throughout Missouri.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the California Cancer Care Equity Act (SB 987), a bill that will expand access to specialized cancer care for Medi-Cal patients who receive a complex cancer diagnosis.
Ted Schwartz, a cancer survivor, gifted $15M to City of Hope that will be used entirely to further accelerate immunotherapy research and treatment innovations, such as the CAR T-cell therapy that saved his life.
Jasmin A. Tiro has been named associate director of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center.
NCI has renewed UT Southwestern’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center Kidney Cancer Program Specialized Program of Research Excellence award.
