Chi Van Dang will receive the 2024 AACR-Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research. The recognition will take place during this year’s AACR annual meeting, April 5-10 in San Diego, CA.
Seanne Falconer was named administrative director at Tulane Cancer Center at Tulane University School of Medicine.
Kay Macleod, professor in the Ben May Department of Cancer Research, was named associate director for basic sciences for the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center.Â
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center opened a center—the Center to Eliminate Cancer Inequity, or CinEQUITY—to tackle health inequities in cancer, which are expected to increase in the next 25 years as cancer rates climb.
Damian Green will join Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University Miami Miller School of Medicine this spring to lead its transplantation and cellular therapy services. Green was named chief of the Division of Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, as well as assistant director of Translational Research, beginning March 1.Â
Caroline Germa was named chief medical officer at Ikena Oncology Inc.
The governing body of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, or CPRIT, approved $98,592,155 in grants to focus on cancer in Texas. The grants are a mix of academic research and prevention projects and represents the largest public state commitment to cancer research by any U.S. state.
People in Mercer and Lawrence counties will soon have enhanced access to cancer care as UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at UPMC Horizon-Shenango Valley initiates an expansion to add a second linear accelerator.Â
Tampa General Hospital was named an approved Center of Excellence facility for pancreatic cancer treatment by the National Pancreas Foundation.
OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, making it the only accredited program in Oklahoma and one of only three other accredited programs within a 500-mile radius to receive the accreditation from the quality program of the American College of Surgeons.
