Lauren Averett Byers, professor of thoracic/head & neck medical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Medicine from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology. The award recognizes her fundamental discoveries and contributions to identifying novel therapeutic strategies for small cell lung cancer, which have paved the way for personalized treatments, even in the most highly recalcitrant cancers.
Christopher Seet received a $2.9 million R37 MERIT Award from NCI to advance the development of innovative T cell therapies for cancer. He is an assistant professor of hematology-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Julie In received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study the impact of uranium on the cells that line the intestines.
Nan ZhangNoam AuslanderNan Zhang and Noam Auslander, the Wistar Institute assistant professors, have both received independent funding totaling $1.2 million over the next three years for cancer research projects from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The grants are awarded to cancer researchers deemed “V Scholars” and allow Zhang and Auslander to pursue separate projects aimed at new strategies to improve the effectiveness of certain cancer therapies.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force posted a draft recommendation statement on screening for cervical cancer.
AstraZeneca and Merckannounced long-term results from the OlympiA phase III trial which showed Lynparza (olaparib) demonstrated sustained, clinically meaningful improvements in overall survival, invasive disease-free survival and distant disease-free survival for people with germline BRCA-mutated HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.
Eli Lilly and Co. announced results from the phase III EMBER-3 study of imlunestrant, an investigational, oral selective estrogen receptor degrader, in patients with estrogen receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative advanced breast cancer, whose disease progressed on a prior aromatase inhibitor, with or without a CDK4/6 inhibitor.
Eli Lilly and Co. announced results from the phase III BRUIN CLL-321 trial evaluating pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca), a non-covalent Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor in adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma previously treated with a covalent BTK inhibitor.
COTA Inc., PreciseDx, and Baptist Health South Florida announced study results validating that the artificial intelligence-enabled PreciseBreast test is equivalent to the Oncotype DX test at predicting breast cancer recurrence. The research was presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Agendia Inc. announced it will be presenting new data from the Real-World Data Registry, FLEX, demonstrating MammaPrint’s ability to predict chemotherapy benefit in patients with HR+HER2- early-stage breast cancer. The findings will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2024. The MammaPrint test analyzes the 70 most important genes associated with breast cancer recurrence.
