Caroline Chung was named vice president and chief data officer of MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Michelle Monje, a Stanford University neuroscientist and neuro-oncologist, was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2021.
The Coriell Institute for Medical Research and Van Andel Institute have been awarded a SPORE grant from NCI.
Massimo Loda was named editor-in-chief of Molecular Cancer Research, published by the American Association for Cancer Research.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded research grants totaling at least $300 million to 33 researchers in biology and medicine from across the U.S.
A gift from financial services executive and entrepreneur Jim Belardi and his wife, Leslie, will support City of Hope’s research into the treatment of blood cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.
Alice Soragni of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $2.5 million grant from the NCI to develop lab-grown mini tumors that can help identify treatments for rare types of neuroendocrine cancer.
University of Minnesota researchers awarded NCI grant to study head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
A University of Minnesota research team was awarded an R01 grant for their project, which aims to develop a profile analysis of oral cell DNA that may predict head and neck squamous cell carcinoma susceptibility in smokers and assess the role of alcohol intake.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is accepting submissions for its Oncomine Clinical Research Grant.
A study identified racial and ethnic disparities in survival among newly diagnosed patients with childhood cancers in the U.S., with area-level socioeconomic status and health insurance contributing to these disparities.