Jonathan M. Gerber was named chief clinical officer of NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Erika Newman was named associate director for cancer health equity, and Simpa Salami was named associate director for research workforce and leadership development at Rogel Cancer Center.
Sanjay S. Reddy, an associate professor in the Department of Surgery, program director of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship, and co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, was promoted to division chief of surgical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Michelle Pedersen joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as a hospitalist and assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.
Kristi Hendriks has been elected to the Lymphoma Research Foundation’s board of directors. Hendriks is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and wife of Boston Red Sox player and cancer survivor Liam Hendriks.
Investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a $4 million grant from NCI to help advance immune-based therapies to improve treatments and outcomes for people diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
The Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center, Israel’s only cancer hospital, opened an Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Clinic to help patients going through treatment between the ages of 18-44.
Bintrafusp alfa, a novel bispecific antibody, achieved an objective response rate of 22% in women with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer in a phase II nonrandomized controlled trial.
Socioeconomic factors can influence the diagnosis and treatment of children in Texas with malignant solid tumors, increasing the risk of the cancer’s spread and lowering the five-year survival rate, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Scientists have identified a potential driver of aggressive lung cancer tumors in patients who live in areas with high levels of violent crime. Their study found that stress responses differ between those living in neighborhoods with higher and lower levels of violent crime, and between cancerous and healthy tissues in the same individuals.
