The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has awarded eight research projects in six countries with a total of $2.029 million ASPIRE grants.
Following the first year of its 2022–27 strategic plan, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is increasing its investment in programs to advance the study and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic diseases (The Cancer Letter, May 14, 2021).
Donna Hansel was named Division Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Kimberly Hoggatt Krumwiede was named dean of MD Anderson’s School of Health Professions, effective Aug. 1.
Howard Sandler was elected president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Voters overwhelmingly support government action to make health care more affordable, including by extending the increased premium tax credits for purchasing health coverage on the Marketplace, and by closing the Medicaid coverage gap.
Michael Korengold, president and CEO of Enhanced Capital Partners, was named chair of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Board of Directors.
William C. “Bill” Culp made a $500,000 commitment to establish the Dr. William Culp Endowed Professorship in Interventional Radiology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine’s Department of Radiology.
Researchers from NCI and their collaborators have discovered that people of European and African ancestries who were hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to carry a particular combination of genetic variants in a gene known as OAS1 than patients with mild disease who were not hospitalized.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network published new NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for pediatric central nervous system cancers.
