Tiffany Carson was named co-leader of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Program at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Vani Simmons was named assistant center director of the Office of Community Outreach, Engagement and Equity at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Mark Agnel Frederick DawsonCigall KadochMichelle MonjeMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has named three innovative investigators as the recipients of this year’s Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research.
Edna “Eti” Cukierman, co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute and co-leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded the American Cancer Society’s Wilmott Family Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer.
Alanna Joyce Church has received the The American Association for Cancer Research-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant, a one-year, $75,000 award recognizing junior-level faculty members who have demonstrated promise for continued substantive contributions to pediatric cancer research.
The governing body of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has approved $63 million in grants that illustrate the agency’s reach not only in Texas but around the world.
The Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy and the Icahn Genomics Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $5 million grant from NCI to establish a center dedicated to the discovery and development of cutting-edge targets for cancer therapy.
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has announced 16 outstanding projects in its latest class of ASPIRE awards, granting more than $5 million for research that aims to answer key feasibility and proof-of-concept questions in an accelerated time frame, and scaling for impact based upon initial success.
Howard Meyers, of Dallas, Texas, a member of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, has donated $25 million to MD Anderson Cancer Center to establish the Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing.
Color Health and the American Cancer Society have established a free lung cancer screening access program, open to the public, to encourage early detection for as many eligible Americans as possible.
