The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors approved nine new and reissued concepts at a meeting held March 28-29.
Philip D. Greenberg was named American Association for Cancer Research president-elect for 2022-2023. He will assume the presidency in April 2023 at the next AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
In recent weeks, The Cancer Letter has reported on 2022 AACR awards presented to Tony Hunter, John E. Dick, Elaine S. Jaffe, Levi A. Garraway, Karen Lu, and Steven A. Roseberg, as well as this year’s AACR Fellows (The Cancer Letter, March 25, March 25, April 1, 2022).
Elizabeth Plimack, chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was named deputy director of the center.
Rana R. McKay, associate professor of medicine and urology, was named associate director for translational science of the Moores Comprehensive Consortium Cancer Center at UC San Diego.
M. Patricia Rivera was named associate director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and director of the Clinical Lung Screening Program at Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Rivera also joined the Department of Medicine as division chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
John W. Sweetenham was elected chair of the board of directors of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Matt Kalaycio was elected vice-chair.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network named Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center as its 32nd Member Institution.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have partnered with the University of Miami College of Engineering for Engineering Cancer Cures, an initiative to develop and deploy innovative technologies for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle Children’s, and UW Medicine have completed the restructuring of their longtime relationship and the formation of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, a unified adult cancer research and care center.
