Discovery of new cancer treatments and detection tools makes it all the more urgent to address health disparities, the American Association for Cancer Research 2022 Cancer Progress Report said.
The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a Merit Extension Award from the NCI, extending the center’s current $35 million, five-year Cancer Center Support Grant for an additional two years.
Scott M. Welford was named the Tumor Biology Research Program co-leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Shaji Kumar, an expert in multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathies, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Hematologist: ASH News and Reports, the official member news magazine of the American Society of Hematology.
UC San Diego has received a five-year, $16 million grant from NIH Common Fund’s Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation Program will enable the University of California San Diego to recruit 12 diverse, early-career research faculty in the biomedical sciences. This is the largest grant received by UC San Diego to enhance faculty diversity.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have been selected to lead components of the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence program.
The Medical College of Wisconsin broke ground on the 150,000-square-foot cancer research building that will help mitigate the cancer burden throughout eastern Wisconsin and beyond. Construction of the building is expected to be completed by late 2024.
Penn alumni Mindy and Jon Gray have gifted $55 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center to establish the Basser Cancer Interception Institute, which aims to target hereditary cancers at their earliest stages.
Moffitt Cancer Center has conducted the first prospective study to investigate genomic biomarkers associated with aggressive disease in African American men with prostate cancer, a population with disparities in incidence and mortality.
Former smokers who stick to a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk of dying from all causes than those who don’t engage in healthy habits, according to a study by researchers at NCI. The reduced risk of dying was observed for specific causes, including cancer.
